From: litewave99@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 2:16:31 PM UTC+2, Eric Vinyard wrote:   
   > On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 8:14:44 AM UTC-4, Eric Vinyard wrote:   
   > > On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 7:52:00 AM UTC-4, litewave wrote:   
   > > > On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 4:50:47 AM UTC+2, Eric Vinyard wrote:    
   > > > > Let's get metaphysical.   
   > > > >    
   > > > > If there is nothing, does it mean anything is possible?   
   > > >    
   > > > (Logically) possible = consistently defined. Total nothing is not   
   possible because it is not consistently defined.   
   > >    
   > > Sure, but what I'm asking is if what we think of as "nothingness" is the   
   same thing as "pure potential"?   
   >    
   > It's the only way I can imagine "something" coming from "nothing". But then,   
   it's not *really* nothing, is it?   
      
   That's the point, it's not really nothing. It may be like a starting point of   
   the universe where there is no spacetime yet, no energy, just laws of quantum   
   mechanics and general relativity that enable transition from this state of   
   "nothing" to a state    
   with spacetime and energy. That's what physicist Lawrence Krauss called   
   "nothing" in his book A Universe From Nothing, and he was criticized for it,   
   because laws of physics are not nothing.   
      
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