On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > it isn't the empty box that is nothing, it's the contents of the box >
The contents of the box is a vacuum and that is far from nothing, it's seething with virtual particles. > > I don't see that talking about nothingness renders it into something. > The only way to describe nothing is to say what it is not, so although nothing is not something the 2 are inextricably linked. And the best short answer that modern physics can give as to why there is something rather than nothing is that nothing is unstable. > > I could talk about pink unicorns, for example > Therefore the idea of pink unicorns exists, but pink unicorns probably don't. The idea of Real Numbers certainly exists but it's not known if Real Numbers exist. John K Clark > without....hang on what's the neighing sound outside my window? Excuse me > a moment. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
