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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by brankoB on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:39AM (#20121703)
"Pure nothingness" would be the empty set, not a set with something in it.
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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by Dylan16807 on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:56AM (#20121990)
Yes, that's their point. Pure nothingness, the empty set, has the potential to create the set containing the empty set, and then the set containing that, sets containing combinations, etc etc.
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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by brankoB on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:17AM (#20123398)
How does the empty set "create" the set containing the empty set?
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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by Dylan16807 on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:05AM (#20123677)
By being the contents that make that set exist.
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