On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:


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> *You presume there can be no true facts about nothing?*
>

If a fact existed about nothing then there is something. Maybe you think
I'm being unfair but I want a nothing on steroids, and I'm not doing
anything that others didn't do to physicists when they showed how the
vacuum could produce something and they said all that showed was that a
vacuum was something and Leibniz's nothing wasn't nothing enough. The
guiding principle here is that if anyone finds a way to make something from
nothing then you can always find a better nothing.


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> *> I guess what I am asking is:> Can nothing be defined without
> presupposing logic?> Can nothing be defined without presupposing math?*

It doesn't matter, even if you found a way to do without either of those
things you've still got to use some thing to go from nothing to something;
and whatever that thing is it's not nothing. It's conceivable to me that
sometime within the next 30 years or so we may discover a few relatively
simple *physical* rules that could lead to the creation of a universe, and
I think that is as close as we will ever get to answering the question why
there is something rather than nothing. It may not be nothing enough for
some people to be happy but you can't always get what you want.

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John K Clark

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