On Sat, May 5, 2012 John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it so hard to understand a "word"? >
Yes, the word "nothing" keeps evolving. Until about a hundred years ago "nothing" just meant a vacuum, space empty of any matter; then a few years later the meaning was expanded to include lacking any energy too, then still later it meant also not having space, and then it meant not even having time. Something that is lacking matter energy time and space may not be the purest form of nothing but it is, you must admit, a pretty pitiful "thing", and if science can explain (and someday it very well may be able to) how our world with all it's beautiful complexity came to be from such modest beginnings then that would not be a bad days work, and to call such activities "incredibly shallow" as some on this list have is just idiotic. > *>** N O T H I N G - *is not a set of anything, no potential > Then the question "can something come from nothing?" has a obvious and extremely dull answer. > I wrote once a little silly 'ode' about ontology. I started: > "In the beginning there was Nothingness. > And when Nothingness realised it's nothingness > It turned into Somethingness > Then your version of nothing had something, the potential to produce something. I also note the use of the word "when", thus time, which is something, existed in your "nothing" universe as well as potential. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
