Nothing (General)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Saturday, November 28, 2009, 19:44 (5286 days ago) @ David Turell

Is that your argument or are you quoting someone? I'm afraid I don't see what it's getting at. It seems to be a simple assertion.-Quote: "Personally, I would say that a rational thinker must find ex nihilo creation a load of nonsense, and that Stenger, Guth and others who favour it are poor metaphysicians. They don't seem to realise that the idea of the origin of the universe as ''nothing spontaneously breaking symmetry to become something' is just mysticism."-I would call myself a rational thinker, and I don't find ex nihilo creation a load of nonsense. In fact I think it's one of the best ideas for a long time. It is the "metaphysicians" who are out of date in their understanding of what "nothing" means. They have not grasped the logic of quantum theory. They still think "nothing" can have a meaning in absolute terms.-This philosophy, or metaphysics if you prefer, is neither dualism nor monism but "nullism". It does not have to presume anything to start with. It is the ultimate fulfilment of Ockham's Razor. -This is not mysticism at all. It is physics. It is a logical interpretation of the mathematical equations that describe the cosmos.

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GPJ