On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
John,
Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is just a confusion. I can
only repeat what I said before:
'My position is that the idea that you can explain the origin of "a universe from
nothing" is absurd.' Either you have pre-existing laws and substrate -- which is not
'nothing' -- or the universe just "pops" spontaneously, and laws, etc, are just
descriptions of observed regularities in whatever has "popped". You don't have many
other options.
The other popular option (in both religion and physics) is that the universe is eternal
and no "popping" is needed. Some are eternal and infinite and others are eternal and cyclic.
Brent
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