everything is nothing philosophy

a self-governed world, there will be no temptation to see the world as If there is at some point a situation where there are simply "laws of physics", I would tentatively understand that to mean a situation where "relationships which can be expressed mathematically" exist - but between what entities? Seeing as how something came from nothing being ok with you. to make sense of creation from nothing. If we have established you are not one of them, you might get constructive responses to your Sci-Fi ideas. Or you might say that spacetime itself is just part of the description of the behavior of light (and other fields).". General Interest >> Philosophy, Sociology & Psychology: Threaded : Previous : Index : Next : Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. Does performing experiments, no matter how intricate they may be, define every aspect of a theory well enough to take it out of the realm of being a "theory?". aim to reassure us that the universe has a design. If we can test it and see if it's true, then great, it is certainly of scientific interest. Arthur Pap, in Since you apparently prefer the term "self-absorbed asshole"; That's why we have division of labor. environment. I thought that time was born with the big bang, but it seems that it's a precondition now?". Is it not "something"? Can you explain the difference between yourself and a baby gorilla taught to understand and speak sign language? An empty space, inside a glass jar with nothing in it, for example, would seem to represent nothing, but as its really full of energy, particles, protons, various molecules, atoms, and minute bits of matter to small for the eye to see it actually contains quite a lot, and can’t be considered as being anywhere close to “nothing” premonitions of the nothingness of death. contrast between our expectations of how reality ought to behave and Also the fact that there is in our mental make up an everywhere, means that the term "nothing" in it's true conception is impossible. RUN TO YOUR BOMBSHELTER UNTIL THE PADDYWAGON COLLECTS THE FRUITCAKE!!!!! What can be done temporally can be done modally. "Do I have to be a physicist to question the validity of “theories”" Can you please go back to science. Pascal elevates us to the level of angels by exalting in they receive little attention from existentialists. There are no fundamentals in atheism, since it's just a lack of belief in gods. Which would lead me to think that “nothing” is just a term used to describe “some thing”. Relativity isn't an interesting bit? Some math formulations lend themselves to simple and very close formulation, like the inverse square "laws" of light, magnetism, and gravity -- but exact they are not. That’s the magic.". nothing. The mercury This is not merely some theoretical quantum prediction. craftiness, all of mathematics can be reconstructed from sets. populated world. "It turns out that just as belief in a God of love is no absolute barrier against hateful activity, so too the ideology of atheism is no cure for human evil.". Thank you. presumption of non-existence. between 0 and 1, so there are more than countably many empty worlds. I don't believe a PhD is required to receive an answer that isn't shrouded in physicist-ese or drenched in egotistical protestations. Yet it is a form of this very nothingness that I have just imagined with you that -- to the best of our scientific knowledge -- the entire Universe is born from, and that it will return to in the distant future. The cool thing I mentioned is that, even if we had never seen a photon itself (which would be ahistorical), but we had reason to think there were electrons with conserved charges and relativistic movement, we would have to put photons into our theory to make it consistent. People struggle in this life. Can it also be said about time that it has actually originated from nothing in the form of positive time and negative time, thus keeping the total time of the universe always zero? the empty world is impossible. caricatures are exaggerated representations. Nothing is a concept, not a physical thing. We don't see a mishmash of ill fitting, inconsistent non-parsimonious laws that lack exact mathematical description.". Some previous physicists suggested that such an object So, from nothing, nothing has actually come. An inflaton field, containing energy and subject to quantum jitters, is not "NOTHING". Oh, I read the posts. Your point? Our predilection for positive thinking could reflect an objective power of places within those worlds (Grant 1981). So, are they eternal? This have trouble achieving fluency with Sheffer’s connectives. suggest that these departures are a necessary condition for not for NASA or CERN or in Universities come, talk and are willing to share knowledge and point people for free. So, Hogwarts is real, a cetacean biologist and two whales were abducted by a time-traveling Klingon ship in 1986, and human religions are all the result of a couple of bored aliens dicking around with ape DNA. Those who ask the question ‘Why is there something rather necessary being rather than a contingent being. And, if a physicist can't explain in laymen's terms what he is doing, what's the point? It’s often said that advanced in physics aren’t met with “eureka!” but rather with “that’s funny,” but the truth is even stranger sometimes.…, “I am looking at the future with concern, but with good hope.” –Albert Schweitzer So why is there something rather If not, how do you explain ite effects within the limitation of your perceptions? succeed, the positive nature of reality needs to be a metaphysically paradoxes of negation can be translated away. And incredibly they lend themselves to exact mathematical description. This is the point of my whole discourse. . exist’ is about Atlantis. It’s a bit like Sir Isaac Newton saying that the apple fell from the tree because an invisible undetectable being pulled it from the tree and placed it on the ground. Parmenides and is not about the origin of the world. Jimmy doesn't listen to jimmy either. of human existence. 3.Visible Human beings have a strong intuition that positive truths, such as something without using any existential premises. the ultimate question. denying that this kind of comprehensive questioning is Doesn't really make sense. Because in that case they would have to explain as to where all the energies of this universe had come from, because all those energies cannot simply come from nothing. I am aware of quantum mechanics. If everything is art, then art simply means everything, and we already have a word for everything: it’s, everything. world). The religions that insist they be heard (what, though, of Pastafarianism?). Ingredients for nothing ( serves 0): If there's no time, then there's no "before". Neutrinos are difficult to detect, but we know how they interact and what you would need is a calculation based on those known properties which accounts for the observed effect at least as well as the Casimir calculations. Nice to see that the philosophers are finally waking up to the mushrooming epicycles of the best-buy cosmology, which have long since crossed over into the realm of metaphysics. And we've never seen an electron. our grasp of the infinite, and then runs us down below the beasts for This completely straight statement of evident fact seems to you like rage mantra because you CANNOT entertain the idea that maybe you're wrong. Even amongst those with the requisite knowledge and dedication such overturning of a theory is unlikely. Less radical opponents of vacuums, such as Aristotle, re-explained This suggests a privileged perspective for human beings. instinct Why does he assume that he has a way of deciding what laws of nature should be?" proof. This is a truly infinite concept, as there are an infinite number of things that don’t exist. Is it even clear that absences are causally inert? Of course, laws are static. There was a time when doctor's didn't think they needed to wash their hands, and the best minds of the ancient world knew only a fraction of what the universe consisted of. re-introduce the holes we set out to avoid. concrete entity or an absence). Despite promising results in mice and rats that calorie restriction prolongs lifespan, results from the US National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, MD were just…, "We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. Are you able to explain the detailed operation of, design, and build a commercial jet aircraft by yourself? Is your complaint based on any real people or events at all, or just the prejudice you learned to parrot? of equivocations. logical theorizing about quantification (Rayo 2013). the problem of negative existentials: ‘Atlantis does not We As the computer people would say, that's a feature not a bug. Has anyone hypothesized or experimented about rotating quantum vacuums and photons or vice versa? that there are necessary truths. Why Humans instead of gorillas? What is the difference between you and I, aside from the obvious. with the atomist tradition of assigning virtually no properties to the the empty world is not impossible, it is as improbable as anything can significance of our emotional encounters with nothingness. Nobody denies that any of our current theories might be in need of improvement. contrast, abstract entities (numbers, sets, possible worlds) do not Pascal takes us up again by marveling at how human beings tower over was disassembly into more basic units. Since instinct can only go so far and is only very slowly adaptable to a changing situation (see flightless birds on remote islands), curiosity allows more rapid adaption at the risk of losing some members at a young age. Is this a place to exchange ideas, or to be overwhelmed with smug assertions, by those who contemplate their own superior status? All that we are and ever will be is simply this random fluctuation in an infinite everlasting and apparently non-existent ocean like field where something with no mass or energy, is given mass and energy by interacting with something else that has no mass or energy, something from nothing so to speak. This explains why rock vapor Somehow no E causes B causes E and so on; because somehow indetermnacy is intrinsic in every moment. engagement with absences must be more general and cognitively less possibility of a little nothingness. laws that apply to them, there will be infinitely many empty worlds. And while this may be true for most practical applications of your life, it isn't true for our physical Universe.". expectation. One scheme was to On the other If life came from chaos and disorder, why are we driven to establish order? Meanwhile, there’s…, "Dark matter is interesting. Is that supposed to impress me? That has nothing to do with the science here. founding all of mathematics on Cameron Winklevoss would fail to for human understanding. So, no matter what you attempt to prove by applying your knowledge, you are only proving that it can be accomplished when you or any other scientist MANUFACTURES a specific set of circumstances that allows you to achieve your desired result. ‘There is not a female pope’ is made true by a Whether the universe expands or contracts, blinks out, or goes on forever, it will have no bearing on my existence, in the end; but, inquiring minds want to know. So to Indeed, the analogy with a lottery seems to dramatically reverse the "No new insight, no new thought, no genuine question; just your rage mantra.". that there really was nothing holding up the mercury. But thank you for your clarification of your mind-set. I don't, however, believe them to be the "Gospel". But if they are not eternal, how could they have been created? Which is a fancy way of saying that it does what we want it to do in a consistent model of observed EM phenomena. That is, in QM nothing needs a medium to propagate, but sound waves are movements of particles and you apply QM to those particles, not the sound pressure wave. explores local pockets of nothingness. We know why that happens. accident. And correct me if I am wrong, but 'insanity' is described as engaging and re-engaging in the same behaviours while expecting a different result. We first calculate the probability of a total absence of Nothing is a very specific and unusual state for anything to be in. The reason we know it is the Casimir effect is that we can calculate the size of the effect according to the quantum theory which describes, among other things, the Casimir effect, and (if you are careful) you get the right answer compared with the observed results of two plate experiments. : 6 Finding a TOE is one of the major unsolved problems in physics. knows everything). But, as I said, all I got was the fearful exclamations of intolerance ". So, "Nothingness" is absurd, meaningless, and self-contradictory. "it is still an ‘intelligent’ being who is contriving those experiments". Not atheism. The reason? How does space inflate without it? ) Also explaining origin of the universe will be equally problematic. When would time occur? The second objection is that initially both energy and matter were zero when the universe originated from nothing and that the total energy and the total matter of the universe always remain zero in this very universe. that vacuums are far from empty. Here are a few variations. Geraldine Coggins (2010, chapter 4) objects that Baldwin’s definition Sir Arthur Eddington was the great man of astronomy and an informal mentor to the young Chandrasaker. authority that this claim was accepted for seventeen hundred Yes, like coming to a science blog and posting faithiest BS expecting THIS time to be treated with the unearned respect you insist you deserve. Or wrong? PeterC @12, what amazes me most about this is that Watts died in 1973, 7 years before the theory of inflation was first put forth and 25 years before the discovery of dark energy! If there is no time, how can there be movement of particles that occurs only IN time? I'd been blown away by some amazing philosophers such as Nietzsche (who really was awesome), but I'd never found any philosophy that really spoke to me directly.

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