On Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 2:49:14 PM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 4:29 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> If the vacuum is nothing, how can it have properties such as permeability and permitivity?* *That depends on what you mean by "nothing", the best definition I know of is infinite unbounded homogeneity. Some people define nothing as being unable to do anything or become anything, if that's the definition of nothing and the vacuum is nothing then clearly the vacuum does not exist; therefore I conclude that is a lousy definition of "nothing". * *> Is this scholastic type thinking? * *Yes.* *> but it still deserves an answer. * *Why? History has shown that scholastic type thinking leads precisely nowhere, it was all the rage between about AD 300 to 1300, and during that thousand years science made almost no progress. * It's a damned good question and deserves an answer. Don't you think? What are you measuring that you call permeabiliy and permativity? AG *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* smp -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/6a25c956-9e81-40e4-a0e2-298039b6a735n%40googlegroups.com.
