<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kYtkG8INML8/VGb5Cu0WdhI/AAAAAAAAB-M/v1flmzdgt1E/s1600/miracle.gif> I've read it and considered it and I think it's bollocks... though there are some interesting ideas in there, e.g. that in information-theoretic terms nothingness can be described as an infinity of mutually cancelling bits... Then the crucial question becomes how the symmetry of this situation becomes broken, so that zero information turns into some information, and this is where the paper breaks down in my view... They use a lot of high-flown terminology but in my view that's a smoke scream to hide the fact that they simply don't have an answer.... Somehow this state of perfect of symmetry (nothing as the mutual cancellation of bits and antibits) is spontaneously broken.... But how this occurs remains a mystery... Especially given the fact that the authors themselves admit that an asymmetry can can only arise from a previous asymmetry.... It reminds me of the above famous cartoon...
And is it any good? >> > > IMHO it's two time bollocks > > even if this was a legitimate solution for universe from nothing or > whatever. That isn't a capture of the problem....yes how that, but then how > all the structure and form? There's no point decoupling the problem to > some little initialization. Because all you get is some little thing that's > only worth anything if it can then explain the rest. Might as well just > keep it together > > The other way it's bollocks is that we aren't defining in strong way. Can > existence spring from non-existence? Only if it wasn't non-existence, to > the extent there was a potential for existence to jump out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
