Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jan 2015, at 18:36, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: That would made existence into a property, which is something usually avoided If it's not a property then existence and non-existence have no consequences, No, all

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jan 2015, at 17:57, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:00 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to be obsessed with God, I'm obsessed!? Bruno is the one running around trying to stick the G-O-D label on anything that moves not me. I think Liz menat that you are

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jan 2015, at 18:44, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Nothing exist = not one thing exists Then nothing doesn't exist, Why? if nothing exist, not one thing exist. so something must exist, but it says nothing exists. And

Re: S=0

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Jan 2015, at 10:56, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Kim Jones Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 12:25 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread Samiya Illias
On 07-Jan-2015, at 12:41 pm, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 2:00 AM To:

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Jan 2015, at 20:21, meekerdb wrote: On 1/6/2015 1:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Jan 2015, at 06:05, 'Roger' via Everything List wrote: Even if the word exists has no use because everything exists, it seems important to know why everything exists. But everything does not

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 4:49 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics? On

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 12:12 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 8:01 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics? On 1/7/2015

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2015 7:23 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 12:12 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why

Re: S=0

2015-01-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: The problem is that we get only one qubit, and we still lack a tensor product, but there are reason to expect them from other variants: the graded one given by []^n p ^m t p. But this can works only if they obeys some

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 12:52 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics? On 1/7/2015

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 11:40 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics? On 1/6/2015

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
Chris, 1.It sure is hard to visualize the absolute lack-of-all, I agree. What I try to do is to shut my eyes and try to imagine the universe and all its volume collapsing down to just my body and then just my mindscape. Then, I push that darkness of the mindscape off to the side

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Roger' via Everything List
If only through the we which think about that nothing. Is anything possible at all without an observer? -Chris Roger: If we're talking about the situation where there's only the absolute lack-of-all or the empty set, I think the only place the perspective/observer is coming from is

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2015 7:37 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Wednesday, January 07, 2015 11:40 AM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Why is there

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:42 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics? On

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 7:49 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to

The Object

2015-01-07 Thread Jason Resch
From Douglas Jone's short story ( http://frombob.to/you/aconvers.html ): But suppose it *were* possible to create physical universes like yours within an appropriately specified computational universe. What could you say about the origin of the universe then? Very little, actually. Why? Because

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread zibblequibble
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 6:51:08 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Bruno Marchal mar...@ulb.ac.be javascript: wrote: you are obsessed with the christian or abramanic God, but I use the term in its original sense given by Plato, where God is the ultimate

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Ultimate reality? What would make one reality more real than another? To a physicist pressure is a perfectly real concept, and the idea that pressure makes a balloon expand is true. And the

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2015 3:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Jan 2015, at 20:21, meekerdb wrote: On 1/6/2015 1:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 03 Jan 2015, at 06:05, 'Roger' via Everything List wrote: Even if the word exists has no use because everything exists, it seems important to know why

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/7/2015 11:25 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Ultimate reality? What would make one reality more real than another? To a physicist pressure is a perfectly real concept, and the idea that pressure makes a balloon expand is true. And the concept that a million billion

Re: Democracy

2015-01-07 Thread John Mikes
Dear Bruno, allow me NOT to copy your post (and mine!) just picking parts for reflections. Thanks for recognising my post. *Prohibition is enough to kill capitalism, and democracy in the long run.* I argued that there is no such thing as that darn 'democracy' - so how should prohibition (and what

Re: The Object

2015-01-07 Thread zibblequibble
yeah - this is a really original and very intelligent short story that explores the event of an civilization on the rise, that is connected by a more advanced civilization, but that sadly went the wrong way about 50-100 years before, effectively destroying its robust knowledge and societies,

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: all logicians have agreed that existence is a logical symbol. And what does that symbol symbolize? The above tells me nothing, a symbol can symbolize anything and a symbol can symbolize nothing too. Logical sybols don't necessarily

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: you are obsessed with the christian or abramanic God, but I use the term in its original sense given by Plato, where God is the ultimate reality. Ultimate reality? What would make one reality more real than another? To a

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics? On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:  

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread meekerdb
On 1/6/2015 11:41 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: So, even what we think of as nothing is an existent entity or something. If only through the we which think about that nothing. Is anything possible at all without an observer? What we think is nomologically possible is

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Jan 2015, at 08:41, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 2:00 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is there