Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-23 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
computational states. QP seems right up there. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Feb 15, 2015 4:15 pm Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential On 15 February 2015 at 07:00, spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-23 Thread John Mikes
Brent: cute. You said already something similar earlier. What I am asking is the raport WHY we say the chair has mass and we expend energy - in a scientific explanatory sense. BTW I tried (and failed) to pick up a proton to experience its 'mass'. According to some physicists it also has som

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2015 12:49 PM, John Mikes wrote: Brent: cute. You said already something similar earlier. What I am asking is the raport WHY we say the chair has mass and we expend energy - in a scientific explanatory sense. I'm sure you're aware that in the scientific sense they are values within

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-23 Thread John Mikes
Liz: any idea what - MASS - anad - ENRGY- 'may' be? (not from the equational recourses based on the supposition of their 'existence' in science!) JM On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 7:05 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 February 2015 at 09:50, John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: This

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-23 Thread meekerdb
On 2/23/2015 11:48 AM, John Mikes wrote: Liz: any idea what - MASS - anad - ENRGY- 'may' be? (not from the equational recourses based on the supposition of their 'existence' in science!) JM You want a pre-theoretic idea of mass and energy? Pick up your chair and lift it over your head ten

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-22 Thread LizR
states. QP seems right up there. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Feb 15, 2015 4:15 pm Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential On 15 February 2015 at 07:00, spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-22 Thread LizR
On 17 February 2015 at 09:50, John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: This may seem off the subject, but conservation of mass-energy must not be correct, otherwise our Universe could not have become so large (in terms of both *mass and energy)*. I believe this is true. Mass-energy isn't

RE: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-16 Thread John Ross
: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:52 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential On 14 February 2015 at 06:47, John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: Liz

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-15 Thread LizR
On 15 February 2015 at 07:00, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Being a fool, I ask, Is it possible to do a theology (In the Marchal sense of the word) from quantum potential? Just asking. Assuming quantum potential supports a universal computer, I

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
: Cosmology from Quantum Potential Empty space is the same as nothing. No way! if it is a 'definite' space, it has borders and characteristics. I don’t understand your comment, “It presupposes the laws of physics.” I don’t think empty space presupposes the laws of physics and I don’t think “nothing

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-13 Thread LizR
On 13 February 2015 at 18:20, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: John, Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is just a confusion. I can only repeat what I said before: 'My position is that the idea that you can explain the

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Feb 2015, at 11:41, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2015 at 18:20, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: John, Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is just a confusion. I can only repeat what I said before: 'My position is

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-13 Thread John Mikes
*Empty space is **the same as nothing.* No way! if it is a 'definite' space, it has borders and characteristics. *I don’t understand your comment, “It presupposes the laws of physics.” I don’t think empty space presupposes the laws of physics and I don’t think “nothing” presupposes the laws of

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2015 at 06:47, John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: Liz, A universe from nothing may sound absurd but a universe that has always existed and had no beginning is more absurd. Neither of these is absurd. That would just be human preconceptions, based around the domain

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2015 at 07:08, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Feb 2015, at 11:41, LizR wrote: On 13 February 2015 at 18:20, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: John, Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread LizR
:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:04 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential On 12 February 2015 at 08:09, John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com

RE: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread John Ross
Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential Liz, I think you are generally correct in what you write below. Current writing by cosmologists etc on getting a universe from nothing assume the prior existence of at least a background space-time. More usually, this is assumed to be the vacuum

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread Bruce Kellett
Liz, I think you are generally correct in what you write below. Current writing by cosmologists etc on getting a universe from nothing assume the prior existence of at least a background space-time. More usually, this is assumed to be the vacuum of quantum field theory. So there is a clear

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread LizR
Now that we've sorted out the acronyms, I'd appreciate a response to the points I made - see below. Empty space *is *the same as nothing. I would say far from it. Why should empty space exist? The questions why is there something rather than nothing? Why does the universe go to the bother of

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: John, Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is just a confusion. I can only repeat what I said before: 'My position is that the idea that you can explain the origin of a universe from nothing is absurd.'

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread Bruce Kellett
Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Kellett Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:27 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential Liz, I think you are generally correct in what you

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: John, Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is just a confusion. I can only repeat what I said before: 'My position is that the idea that you can explain the origin of a universe from nothing is absurd.' Either you have

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread meekerdb
On 2/12/2015 9:34 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: John, Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is just a confusion. I can only repeat what I said before: 'My position is that the idea that you can explain the origin

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2015 9:34 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 2/12/2015 6:24 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: John, Calling 'empty space' 'nothing' in the philosophical sense is just a confusion. I can only repeat what I said before: 'My position is that the idea that you can

RE: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-12 Thread John Ross
Thanks. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 3:22 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential LOP = Laws of physics On 12 February 2015 at 12:32

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-11 Thread LizR
Hi John As I mentioned before, empty space isn't the same as nothing. It already presupposes the laws of physics, even if it doesn't do much with them they're there. What we're discussing is where the laws of physics themselves come from (and perhaps things they appear to rely on, like maths).

RE: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-11 Thread John Ross
. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 5:26 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential Is there a simple explanation for dummies of what an infinitely old

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-11 Thread LizR
On 12 February 2015 at 08:09, John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: Hi Liz, Good to hear from you again. Empty space *is *the same as nothing. I would say far from it. Why should empty space exist? The questions why is there something rather than nothing? Why does the universe go

RE: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-11 Thread John Ross
: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:04 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential On 12 February 2015 at 08:09, John Ross jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: Hi Liz, Good to hear from you again. Empty space is the same as nothing. I would say far

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-10 Thread LizR
interesting, if true. (So they've removed that pesky factor of 10 to the power of 120 from the calculations...!?) On 11 February 2015 at 10:34, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Cosmology from quantum potential Ahmed Farag Ali http://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Ali_A/0/1/0/all

Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Cosmology from quantum potential Ahmed Farag Ali http://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Ali_A/0/1/0/all/0/1, Saurya Das http://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Das_S/0/1/0/all/0/1 (Submitted on 11 Apr 2014 (v1 http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3093v1), last revised 29 Dec 2014 (this version, v3)) It was shown

Re: Cosmology from Quantum Potential

2015-02-10 Thread LizR
Very interesting, if true. (So they've removed that pesky factor of 10 to the power of 120 from the calculations...!?) On 11 February 2015 at 10:34, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Cosmology from quantum potential Ahmed Farag Ali http://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Ali_A