On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 09:45:35AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > The quantum vacuum is not vacuum at all. Then there are as many notion of > nothing than there are notions of thing. If the thing are number, the nothing > is the number zero. If the things are sets, the nothing is the empty set, > etc. Nothing has no meaning in the absolute, but make sense when we are > precise on which things we are talking about. That is why theories of > nothing, everything and things are the same thing.
Interesting. I might quote this in an argument I'm having with a friend. You could just as easily say there are many different notions of "everything", and in a sense nothing is the complement, or dual of everything. For anything one can say about everything, the opposite is true of nothing. eg if everything has property A, nothing does not have property A Mind, my friend would argue that everything and nothing are ineffable, and have no properties. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
