I'm reading a book about nothing. No, it's not Seinfeld, it's K.C. Cole's "The Hole in the Universe" and the whole book is about nothing, our development of it, and it's place in the Universe. It's real interesting.
Not done yet but it's occurred to me that NOTHING, in the absolute sense cannot exist and never has. I mean, it's only there to compare to something. Some models of cosmology state more or less that 'something' came from 'nothing' because 'nothing' is unstable, that 'nothing' being a quantum-fluctuating false vacuum or something, but even THAT's a sort of 'something' so that's not really 'something' from 'nothing' but merely a 'something' from a very different 'something'. Even if you believe 'everything' was created from 'nothing' by 'God' from an absolute nothing sense, i.e. there was no quantum-fluctuating spacetime or anything, God made it but then He himself would have to be 'something' as He could hardly be 'nothing', unless he didn't exist, in which case he couldn't have made anything.
So there never really was 'nothing'. Ever. The discussion of whether there is/was a Creator is not so much a discussion of whether 'something' can come from 'nothing' but rather what sort of 'something' must give rise to the current 'something'.
My head hurts now.
Not done yet but it's occurred to me that NOTHING, in the absolute sense cannot exist and never has. I mean, it's only there to compare to something. Some models of cosmology state more or less that 'something' came from 'nothing' because 'nothing' is unstable, that 'nothing' being a quantum-fluctuating false vacuum or something, but even THAT's a sort of 'something' so that's not really 'something' from 'nothing' but merely a 'something' from a very different 'something'. Even if you believe 'everything' was created from 'nothing' by 'God' from an absolute nothing sense, i.e. there was no quantum-fluctuating spacetime or anything, God made it but then He himself would have to be 'something' as He could hardly be 'nothing', unless he didn't exist, in which case he couldn't have made anything.
So there never really was 'nothing'. Ever. The discussion of whether there is/was a Creator is not so much a discussion of whether 'something' can come from 'nothing' but rather what sort of 'something' must give rise to the current 'something'.
My head hurts now.
