Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by naringas on Friday June 07, 2019 @06:55AM (#20123306)

but nothingness in fact isn't an impediment to creation because nothingness just isn't. it's not an impediment nor a boon nor anything at all.

and how can you concieve of a way to measure "nothingness" when by definition you would be trying to measure that which isn't there to be measured?

have you ever seen zero of anything? how would you measure that?

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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by senectus1 on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:04PM (#20152541)

I agree that conceiving of nothingness is hard and as yet unsolved.

but I fail to see how this is related to your first statement. >but nothingness in fact isn't an impediment to creation because nothingness just isn't.

Again the statement that nothingness isn't an impediment, literally can not be proven. Because of that, you must leave open the potential that pure nothingness might be not only an impediment to creation but it might also be the ultimate impediment to creation of something.

We dont know what the properties of nothingness holds in our universe or how our universe of stuff behaves around nothingness.

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Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No... by naringas on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:06PM (#20176756)

> We dont know what the properties of nothingness holds in our universe or how our universe of stuff behaves around nothingness.

nothingness holds no properties.

I think it's more useful to ponder how can we even talk about it to discuss its precise nature. which it doesn't have, so is it kind of recursive? i.e its nature is its 'own' non-self? ugh..

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