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Nothingness should have no spatial expansion because it means there will be a potential to fill it, so making it not nothing but something.
If singularity is a point which means it has no spatial dimensions then it is nothing, then saying the universe was created from a singularity does not make sense to me because if it could create then the potential to create made it something.
If nothing existed before the creation of this universe then the universe couldn't have been created because whatever nothing was before the creation of the universe was something other than nothing.
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.
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Re: Nothing has no potential -
02-14-2008, 02:10 PM
Of course not "see" in the literal sense, but if we could see absolutely nothing, it would be the same as if we could see absolutely everything simultaneously; then, anything that is observed must be the result of a relative process of creation/annihilation requiring no beginning or ending.
Re: Nothing has no potential -
02-14-2008, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by N0B0DY
Of course not "see" in the literal sense, but if we could see absolutely nothing, it would be the same as if we could see absolutely everything simultaneously; then, anything that is observed must be the result of a relative process of creation/annihilation requiring no beginning or ending.
I did not mean 'see' literally.
Creation or annihilation would be an event. I wonder how it can occur without beginning or end?
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.
-Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000), American cartoonist, the creator of peanuts.
Re: Nothing has no potential -
02-14-2008, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Mohan.C
I did not mean 'see' literally.
Creation or annihilation would be an event. I wonder how it can occur without beginning or end?
I conceded as much with respect to the expression, but suggested if it were possible it would be the same as seeing everything simultaneously.
The simultaneity of the event you referred to, would be the absolute point of creation and annihilation. Perhaps a useful analogy would be to consider the cyclic nature of a magnetic field, from South to North poles - a continuous event without beginning or end.
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02-14-2008, 07:07 PM
Potential, or possibility, is eternal. It is a counter-intuitive form of reality, such as quantum superposition, from which our penultimate reality of "something" springs. Think of it as neither something nor nothing, as this is what it must be, for nothing cannot exist and something cannot come from nothing.
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