From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 18:18:52 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
There *is no nothing*. The question `why is there something rather than
nothing' seems to me totally empty, as close to nothing as one can get. :)
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
### I'd rather think everything may be made of nothing, and the road to
understanding of the former (physics?) leads through meditating on the
latter (mathematics?).
But I agree there is no need for a "why" in this equation.
Rafal
Granted, the 'how' is the clincher, and the 'why' is in the category
of "why does a dog lick it's......" and the how and why occur as a
single package. It's all ultimately meaningless and Yes, there is no
nothing.
The semantics of our language for it is a lot of fun :-) (even in our
positive universe).
But I agree with Rafal - The explanation of this seems, to me, the key to
understanding the origins of everything.
Try constructing a Nothing...
posit Thing and anti-Thing. Or Up-Thing, Down-Thing and Strange-Thing
What is the nature of these Thing(s)?
How accurate a Nothing can you make?
How stable is it, whats the morphology?
These questions constrain the nature of Thing and lead places in a
mathematical
sense.
The other good bit is that you can't fail! Look I've done it again!
cheers,
Colin Hales
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