On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Pierz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Don't you think there's a difference between "not thinking" and "thinking > of nothing"? > No, I don't think there is a difference and you gave the reason why thinking of nothing is equivalent to not thinking when you said: " "Nothing" has no referent, so it is impossible to think of it itself " > > > Also, very big is not continuous with "everything" > Maybe maybe not, it all depends on if space-time is infinite or not. > > > and "very small" is not continuous with "nothing". > Maybe maybe not, it all depends on if space-time is quantized or not; if it's not then the Real Numbers are a mathematical fiction. Maybe that's why physicists have had so much trouble finding a quantum theory of gravity, there isn't one to find. Or maybe they will find it tomorrow, nobody knows. > > > infinitesimal is not equal to nothing. Calculus rests on that distinction. > Yes but the difference between those two things is arbitrarily small; name any number and the difference is smaller than that no matter how many zeros you put to the right of the decal point. John K Clark -- 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.
