Dear Norman, Perhaps because "Nothingness" can not non-exist.
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Hawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Norman Samish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 3:19 PM Subject: Re: Why is there something instead of nothing? > > > Norman Samish wrote: > > >... > >I don't understand how there can be both something and nothing. Perhaps I > >don't understand what you mean by "nothing." By "nothing" I mean no thing, > >not even empty space. > > > > > > I think of it this way. > > 1. Information (a strange and inappropriately anthropocentric word - it > should just be called "differences") is the most > fundamental "thing". > > 2. The plenitude, or multiverse (of possible worlds) can be conceived of > as "the potential for all possible information states" > or in other words, all possible sets of differences, or in otherwords, > an infinite length qu-bitstring simultaneously exhibiting > all of its possible states. > > 3. In that conception, "nothing" is just the special state of the > qu-bitstring in which all of the bits are 0 (or 1 - there are two > possible nothings, but they are equivalent, since 1 is defined only in > its opposition to 0 and vice versa.) > That is, in that conception, "nothing" is a universe in which there is > no difference, and thus no structure. i.e. That > state of the bitstring has zero entropy, or zero information. So it is > truely "nothing." > > 4. but that special state of the qu-bitstring is only one of the 2 to > the power (bitstring-length) simultaneously existing > information-states of the qu-bitstring. And some of the other sets of > information-states are our universe (i.e. "something.") > and similar universes (everything? or at least everything of note.) > > >