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Roger

['Member']Joined: July 20, 2020 at 00:49Last active: July 18, 2022 at 03:11None discussions30 comments
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Science person but interested as a hobby in the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?"

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No one ever agrees with this argument, so I'll just put it here in case anyone's interested. If not, just ignore it. Thanks. I think that to ever get ...
July 16, 2022 at 22:18
Good for Parmenides, but I'll do my own thinking.
April 15, 2022 at 02:06
I already said my view, which you had previously quoted, that the seeming temporal change from "nothing" to "something" is like an artifact imposed by...
April 14, 2022 at 20:08
I'm not a big fan of Sean Carroll's because his final answer to the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is that it's a brute fact. ...
April 14, 2022 at 06:03
That's great! If quantum fields are "the basis of all that is possible" and "the fundamental strokes", who am I to argue with great literature?! I wit...
April 13, 2022 at 21:45
Agreed! On this, we are in unity! :smile: It's a possibility that something has always been here, but to me, that seems unsatisfying since I still don...
April 13, 2022 at 03:07
Yep, that's what I think. Without having some thing that exists because of whatever's inherent to that thing, I think there will be an infinite regres...
April 13, 2022 at 02:48
Not a grouping of existence, but I think a grouping is what causes something to exist. For instance, a grouping together of paper, ink and binding ato...
April 13, 2022 at 00:56
Thanks!
April 12, 2022 at 23:27
Hi. When you hear physicists talk about something coming from nothing, the nothing they're talking about still contains the laws of quantum physics, q...
April 12, 2022 at 21:11
Or not. Why?
March 07, 2022 at 01:30
I'm more along the lines of this. At the most fundamental level, the reason for what exists is inherent to it. I put my view on what this might be on ...
March 06, 2022 at 22:52
Benj96: Hi. My view is more along the lines of your first choice "The universe came from nothing. Something is a property of nothingness". My rational...
March 06, 2022 at 22:04
In using "it" to refer to "nothing", I don't think it's reifying "nothing" just by talking about it because the mind's conception of "nothing" and "no...
November 23, 2021 at 03:16
But I think the question remains. Why is quantum field theory, logic or statistical probabilities there? If we say the laws of math, logic and physics...
November 23, 2021 at 01:00
Why is that something that must be/quantum field there? While it's possible there's no explanation possible, I think that to ever get a satisfying ans...
November 22, 2021 at 23:17
When you say "We starting confusing ourselves when we lose track of the difference between the world and the words we use to describe it. That's what ...
July 01, 2021 at 04:26
1. Can’t get something from nothing 2. So something must of existed permanently 3. There is no reason for something existing permanently - to exist pe...
May 15, 2021 at 02:46
While cosmology is physics, and metaphysics is philosophy, the way I look at it is that they can work together to let us figure out how the universe w...
May 02, 2021 at 02:51
For me, it doesn't matter if it's an illusion/simulation or not. What ever it is, it exists. Now, why? If we can figure that out, even if it is a simu...
April 26, 2021 at 05:17
Hi. I like the way you put it when you say "some people can't conceive of it while others can" and "it's not clear if arguments of the form: «X is uni...
March 11, 2021 at 01:46
I think my vote is that I have neither of the two intuitions. My views on the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" are: 1. I don't a...
March 10, 2021 at 05:28
"The universe can be conceived of as having emerged from the possibility space" Where does the "possibility space" come from? Possibilities exist in m...
December 31, 2020 at 05:10
I wasn't saying to start with a 1. I was saying that we start with nothing. But, another way of visualizing nothing is as a something. They're two dif...
December 12, 2020 at 01:46
To answer the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" in a satisfying way, I think we have to face the possibility that there could hav...
December 11, 2020 at 05:44
In some ways, I agree with you and in others I disagree. I agree that you just can't get something from nothing, with from (implying a change), being ...
October 14, 2020 at 04:29
That's pretty much what I was trying to get at. But, like I said, while it's not possible to visualize"nothing" directly, we do our best to imagine wh...
July 28, 2020 at 02:57
Hi. It's for sure that we can't directly visualize or grasp "absolute nothing", so all we can do is try to visualize being as close to that as possibl...
July 27, 2020 at 03:41
Hi, Eremit. Thanks for replying! I agree with you when you say that the concept of nothing presupposes the something that it negates, but nothing itse...
July 26, 2020 at 18:38
Hi. I'm a new subscriber. Sorry for the little bit longer post to begin with. Others have suggested that the seeming insolubility of the question "Why...
July 20, 2020 at 01:26