Nothing (General)

by David Turell , Sunday, November 29, 2009, 00:59 (5285 days ago) @ George Jelliss

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.
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> 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 put this quote from Physics Forums on line on 11/25/09 at 19:44. Perhaps you didn't pick up on it. As far as I am concerned my Occam's approach is that we live in a universe with "virtual space", a seething cauldron of virtual quantum particles that can pop into and out of existence. Beyond our expanding space is what I conceive of as absolute void. Nothing, into which this universe is expanding. I don't care what Stenger writes or calculates. Math calculates string theory and it has gone nowhere in cosmology. I find lots of criticism of him by physists and philosophers.