RE: Nothing (was: RE: Changing One's Mind)

From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 16:13:14 MDT


Rafal wrote:

>Damien Broderick wrote:
>It's much worse than that. We started out debating whether there could
>conceivably be nothing rather than something. Most people immediately
>dodged this hard question, and galloped around explaining that one
>something could really be another something in disguise, or that a more
>fundamental something could switch off a derivative something.

### Here's my answer to the hard question - something, as well as
everything,
 must exist, because nothing did.

My answer:
Something exists because Nothing requires infinite energy to maintain, and
is inherently unstable becasue it doesn't get that energy. Hence we are here
because of a massive failure of Nothing to do it's job properly. :-)

Colin



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