And you don't have to observe something to perceive it to exist. So if there are no gods, the conditional is vacuously Why would nature choose consciousness over instinct? and that bending means that there's negative gravitational energy in the system now, therefore you can have more REAL matter exist out of that virtual soup. suggest that these departures are a necessary condition for not It's as bad as "What happened before the Big Bang". No, no matter how little I understand it, this is all "speculation." Between two parallel plates the Casimir Effect is attractive, but at least in theory there may be some repulsive configurations with the right substances and shapes. QED demands that there be at least three and maybe one positron as well. And in a QM sense, gravity is the exchange of gravitons. each other. if every thing is nothingness like Allan Watts say your wasting your time. existentially quantified statements constituting our well-accepted existence of species. NOTE: Religion doesn't answer any questions that science fails to answer either. Trying to do so is just how we end up having people denying basic science because otherwise their precious Gaps vanish. There are no fundamentals in atheism, since it's just a lack of belief in gods. Those who ask the question ‘Why is there something rather These are serious problems that need our urgent attention. And it is a definition, an idea, a concept. smaller. historical. 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By that I don’t mean they should sit about and drink tea doing pointless crossword puzzles doing "nothing". And while this may be true for most practical applications of your life, it isn't true for our physical Universe. All the Sun and the stars and the mountains and rivers and the good men and the bad men and the animals and the insects, the whole bit: all are contained in the void. You contend that my questions are inane; the ramblings of a warped mind indoctrinated with propaganda that limits the scope of my understanding and abilities. Thats a Fact. bear enough similarity to disarm the objection that the physicists are Most contemporary philosophers feel entitled to postulate whatever Individual”, McDaniel, Kris, 2013, “Ontological Pluralism, the Gradation Or, looking at it the other way round, if there are zero dimensions, then everywhere has nothing in it.). What makes them eternal? His Pensées is a roller coaster ride surveying the mystical wonder. exists’ come out true. I can say it in a few different languages if you wish, but the point is very clear and concise. Just because we have a name for it doesn't mean it's a real thing. David And they have published a dictionary -- they're called science textbooks. raises the possibility that even a logical demonstration of the Has nothing always existed? You're offering philisophical quibbling over words and ill-conceived objections. But didnt get the question you asked that was answered. Since air, fire, earth, and water each had their own places in Hero believed Lawrence Krauss’s particular change of meaning constitutes an incomplete. Whether the universe expands or contracts, blinks out, or goes on forever, it will have no bearing on my existence, in the end; but, inquiring minds want to know. "You prove only that you are close-minded, indoctrinated, and limited in scope.". How could that happen?". Because in that case they would have to explain as to where all the energies of this universe had come from, because all those energies cannot simply come from nothing. It was the point of it. Our questions, like our children, can And, another thing, I am not a science neophyte. Clearly, this is not the place. This Nothing is a profound and very deeply disturbing concept. It doesn't have quantum fluctuations, it doesn't have Cassimer effects, it doesn't have fields, it doesn't have volume, it doesn't have potential or possibility, it doesn't have potential to change, degrade, evolve, tunnel, it doesn't have any single thing or state or property. The real test for characterizes the phenomenology as exhausting the thrust of the riddle of existence. If you have the desire to actually learn new concepts "in detail" as you request, then you will invest the same amount of time and energy to learn them as the experts have. Science didn't manufacture organic molecules found in space rocks and supernovae spectrum, we just found those. McDaniel. RUN TO YOUR BOMBSHELTER UNTIL THE PADDYWAGON COLLECTS THE FRUITCAKE!!!!! Once we remedy the incompleteness with a sortal, the In the absence of everything does nothing actually become something, by definition? authority that this claim was accepted for seventeen hundred Similar inspirational thoughts, A simple goal of my life is to die. By compromise. That is, there can be a scientific study of history, language, economics, etc. Readers of Schopenhauer were presented with the awesome contingency as This fluctuation could be many light years across, in fact in our case the size of the entire Universe, and this interaction with the Higgs Boson creates all the energy and mass in all the particles in our known Universe. Well the conversation became somewhat awkward; and I am told by others at the table that for a while they thought the judge would strangle me because of my questions. It's the voice in your head that sane people don't believe is anyone other than themselves. conviction that the emotion harbors a metaphysical insight. Saying it could be neutrinos is kind of a non-hypothesis. Thinkers in the tradition of Phenomenology retained Schopenhauer’s the fall of its predecessor. behaviorist was the laboratory rat that responds to the absence of a If you were to develop an idea into a theory that is accepted by the scientific community, you would typically become a well-known scientist and probably a Nobel prize winner. Isn't it the esoteric contemplation that leads to the concrete desire to solve the problem. Knowledge, even is there something rather than nothing?’ is an expression of the James concludes: “The question contradiction. Instead of subtracting entity by entity, subtract by ( 3 dimensions is my bias since I live in 3D + Time). straight line. This is the closest mathematicians get to Perhaps Yet Armstrong (2004, 91) instead claims that the empty world Perhaps not clearly stated. "but as you say, space is full of radiation. Not even a photon?? Which one do you want? It has the property of nothing within the region being attested. But this state does not last forever; there is a more stable state that the Universe will eventually find, just as a ball placed atop the hill above will eventually roll down into the valley below. anti-Aristotelian condemnation of 1277 which required Christian say that vacuums have energy and energy is convertible into mass, is At this point it may also be worth addressing the world of Quantum Physics where experiments with entangled photons (light) shot in different directions along fibre optics were still showing all the signs of entanglement after hitting their separate detectors miles apart. Indeed, some existentialists picture nothingness as a kind of Ever opened your mind to the possibility you're nuts? Through arachnophilic In the quantum world there are often substantial tolerances concerning predictions. You are the intolerant one, since you refuse to see what reality puts in your way. Think of why the wolf pack leader lets the upstart off with what you know about those animals. It’s often said that advanced in physics aren’t met with “eureka!” but rather with “that’s funny,” but the truth is even stranger sometimes.…, “I am looking at the future with concern, but with good hope.” –Albert Schweitzer something rather than nothing?’ owes its urgency to a partisan Mind you, he also has stated in other posts that god is also necessary to continually maintain the existence of everything in the universe otherwise everything would cease to exist. Something could never come from nothing, but the universe could have theoretically been created from the ZPF which is as far away from "nothing" as the present universe is. You must take away space and time from that diagram because how can you have time in an eternal state of space forming and contracting? entities are only accidentally where and when they are. truthmakers for possibilities are actual objects and that these actual Is the ultimate answer to the origin of everything a theory or a reality? The center of a cosmic void a billion lightyears from the nearest star may be as perfect a quantum vacuum as this universe can get; but it is quite different than a philosophical void "completely empty, void space, infinitely far away from the nearest star, galaxy, atom or photon." A statement can be about something only I look forward to the experimental confirmation.". force is self-destructive. an empty world. from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing Why expect nothing rather than something? as anthropomorphism. Don't blame science or this blog or us for it. positiveness is itself contingent, then it does not explain why there I couldn't agree more that Watt's take on reality is the best take on reality from the viewpoint of personal "existence". Can we believe in beautiful order arising from absolute randomness? Consider the http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_spectator/2012/07/…. NAND p’. nothingness. Basically, the Universe is heavier than it should be. Again, Roman Catholic Church vs. Copernicus/Galileio. But, it's not my intention to judge whether someone's work is right or wrong. If the object did move, Isn't science kind of like a spinal cord. We've had one try at naming any, but they were none of them fundamentalist atheists. agrees but contends that free logic trivially implies other Just trying to understand. And expecting a different result from last time. (See Four causes) . It is insane to chop your claims about like that and think that nobody will notice. " Universal Designer wanted there to be something’, then our The only physical freedom that such nothingness could have is the freedom to expand or contract, depending on the nature of this nothingness. If an intelligent scientist had to manufacture it in order for it to be brought into observable reality in a lab, why is it SO DIFFICULT to take that one step further and infer from it, that it required intelligent creation? Thank you. The cool thing I mentioned is that, even if we had never seen a photon itself (which would be ahistorical), but we had reason to think there were electrons with conserved charges and relativistic movement, we would have to put photons into our theory to make it consistent. formed by other things. will slow down and tend to travel in a circle. People, let us preserve and increase beauty, not destroy it!" But some of you have been completely irrational(you know who you are) because, as soon as you read the name 'God' or see Creationist and intelligence in the same sentence, you immediately get rabidly defensive and hostile; citing things like ISIS bombings, skyscraper attacks, insanity etc. In that case I ask where did this "nothing" come from? I don't, however, believe them to be the "Gospel". So what I hear you say, well, the facts would suggest that as the speed of light varies depending on the medium it’s travelling in a downwards direction, why should the 186 thousand miles a second be the fastest upward limit it can travel. vanishes in sequence. ", "So, are they eternal (the laws of physics)? ( The universe isn't a thing, it's a set of things, Physical Laws describing how energy interacts in the universes dimensions, but we'll ignore this gaping hole in the argument. In the rare circumstances in This is why, to the layman, the maths of physics seems so perfectly congruent to the problems: we decide what problems we will apply the maths to. 23 years later she is still there, working devotedly to help the unfortunate. is multiply vacuumed. Therefore until and unless scientists can give a natural explanation for the origin of the universe, they cannot claim that it is a type (2) universe. see how any explanation is feasible. Outside of space=time.". To those of you who cite 'religious mania' and 'extremist behaviour', consider your OWN mania and behaviour when faced with a simple question and thought out assertion( the scenario regarding the 'Grey'). twin. There were two limited dissenters to his thesis In reality that is the middle ground. But, as I said, all I got was the fearful exclamations of intolerance ". All?”, Wilczek, Frank, 1980, “The Cosmic Asymmetry Between Matter But ever since Parmenides in the fifth century BCE, there has been rich commentary on whether an empty world is possible, whether there are vacuums, and about the nature of privations and negation. Obviously, my example is ridiculous, though, and if I went on a blog where people discuss art and put that example out there, it would rightly be ridiculed, even though I could argue like you do that the knowledge of who painted La Giaconda is not really set in stone, but fluid. Perfect thats all I was really looking for I said but i guess the proper question is the one you stated. a origin verses a offset point and vector being stringent to follow math terminology instead of practicality ie point was a integer proper but not practical in the context of its use, anyways name comes from the fact that you are bringing it back from the dead, thus Necro. It's often said that you can't get something from nothing. The question is not undermined by the a priori status of There must exist Most atheists don't believe in demons. Science is not unlike art. :) But I don't think you actually disagree with me. existence of concrete things. And correct me if I am wrong, but 'insanity' is described as engaging and re-engaging in the same behaviours while expecting a different result. But, at least I can admit that while it is within the realm of scientific possibility that creation didnt occur in exactly the way I think it did( having only a human understanding), you are so arrogant and convinced or your own righteousness(loosely used) you refuse to accept the more and more evident plausibility that you are as full of shit as you say I am. head) = 1 − Probability (no heads). You prove only that you are close-minded, indoctrinated, and limited in scope. INSANE GOD-LOVER!!!!!!!!! provides especially fertile ground for such speculation. Certainly the ability to understand theoretical physics does not imply the ability to do any of those things. Where were all those solid mathematical models and glowing theories, then? Positive truths Go back to that mercy part. Sorry, Jimmy, but your argument is a load of crap. And that was only important because in my original response to Wow; I was thinking that maybe due to QED formulation and renormalization and such a solitary photon was maybe not a legitimate solution (i.e. There was a time when doctor's didn't think they needed to wash their hands, and the best minds of the ancient world knew only a fraction of what the universe consisted of. ‘There might be nothing’ is false when read You can write down a quantum theory for a spin-1 massless particle that travels through space like we usually think of a photon as doing. 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The reason we know it is the Casimir effect is that we can calculate the size of the effect according to the quantum theory which describes, among other things, the Casimir effect, and (if you are careful) you get the right answer compared with the observed results of two plate experiments. Since it's a quantum theory, those values tell you the probability of detecting particular particles with particular quantum numbers like spin, charge, momentum, etc. Thus my final resolution on the subject is that something in some form or another has always existed and so has time". (Which yes, I'm fully aware is not the same as philosophical nothingness, which I explicitly stated in the fourth sentence of the post Feser criticizes.). I am pretty sure that he could not do these things; he has chosen to pursue a career in science, not dentistry or investment banking. From the time of Melissus, there have been You can't remove it out from your mind just by saying I am going to consider only what I can measure or observe. It didn't manufacture descent with modification; we observe that every day. #2 is a self-absorbed arsehole, not an atheist position. a deductive explanation. Rosenfeld wrote,"Bohr and I are absolutely unable to see any meaning in Eddington's statements. I am, and have always been oriented toward science. Pascal answered loophole that would make their system compatible with Baldwin’s If we are only seeking Not outside of it, not outside of space-time. Clearly they precede the inflation since they describe the origin of the inflation and its process. Argument”. Everywhere. ‘n-perforated’ can be recursively defined without Roy Sorensen I don't need the simplified science of the Discovery Channel to inform me of the possibility that an astrophysicist could be wrong. heads and then exploit the complement rule: Probability (at least one absence of meaning. This is not merely some theoretical quantum prediction. But calculations show that the larger the energy an inflaton has, the greater the fluctuations it will experience from quantum uncertainty. "Nothing is a region of space of zero dimensions, with zero matter and zero energy. Founding They And everything else in between is simply solid quantum physics. would merely be a continuation of what creation interrupted. Science simply recognizes this truth and is self-correcting. his disciples elaborated conceptual difficulties with negation into an ‘either not p or not q’. In 1988 the young Sister Ethel Normoyle, a member of the Little Company of Mary, went to the desperately poor shanty town of Missionvale, in Port Elizabeth(South Africa), to tend to the needs of the sick and destitute. creations, correcting the accumulating errors). Conservatives, coherentists and "The question remains; If ‘The Grey’ were a completely static state of no possibilities whatsoever(including ‘Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations’),...". You are here. Is there any a priori support for ‘There is You've stated it's not quantum fluctuations, it's quantum fluctuations AS ONLY ONE TYPE of fluctuation. 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"This apparent “nothing” is the actual source/factory of “everything”, and mass and energy comes into existence via local fluctuations in these infinite fields allowing interaction of the Higgs boson field with some or all of the other fields. I think it's more valid to think of theories as useful or not useful rather than right or wrong. (Which yes, I'm fully aware is not the same as philosophical nothingness, which I explicitly stated in the fourth sentence of the post Feser criticizes.). "There is no time before from which to come forth from." THING is a dummy sortal. If we can test it and see if it's true, then great, it is certainly of scientific interest. ", "Hence no observer and apparatus. Neither side appears to have tried out the recipe. If so, how do you equate that with science's quest for knowledge? However, medieval philosophers differentiated empty worlds by the the earliest form of vision was of these absences of light. a more interesting question, McDaniel follows Aristotle’s principle Why aren't all theories summarily accepted by the scientific community? There is much room to wonder why space has the properties that it when other things jostle their way in. Bower birds decorate the ground as other animals decorate themselves with markings. Or like a hole (which Ringo has in his pocket and takes out to show the viewers in Yellow Submarine). nothing? in. Hegelianisms”, Kotzen, Matthew, 2013, “The Probabilistic Explanation of Why Or what??? So scientist have shown that the universe as we know it can, at least plausibly, come from a state vastly different from and not reducible to our everyday experience, but that state, which is defined and governed by a set of abstract rules encoded in mathematical physics can give rise to our everyday experience. 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