Nothing (General)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 01:57 (5276 days ago) @ Mark

Stenger: "...a state of chaos equivalent to nothing..."
> How can nothing and a state of chaos be equivalent? Nothing sounds rather orderly to me. Though, of course, nothing is neither orderly nor chaotic, because it is nothing. This is what Stenger doesn't get. He smuggles something into his nothing.-Because of all this discussion about starting a universe, I thought I'd look up Guth's first comment in the preface to his book, The Inflationary Universe, 1997, pg. xiii: -"Despite its name, the big bang theory is not a theory of a bang at all. It is really a theory of the aftermath of a bang.......... the standard big bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged."