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originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: dragonridr
Are you trolling me or are you that bad at thinking?
Define the word nothing, and then make your statement.
Nothing has no qualities besides the quality of having no qualities.
Look at it this way, here's a link to the definition of nothing, and then they use it in some examples:
originally posted by: ImaFungi
Define the word nothing, and then make your statement.
Nothing has no qualities besides the quality of having no qualities.
We can look at that two ways, the macro scale and the micro scale. The person saying that probably means they have nothing obvious in their hands.
There's nothing in my hands.
True but remember I also said this:
originally posted by: ImaFungi
Those are all unscientific phrases.
Krauss may use the term "nothing" in a book directed to the public, but do you see the word "nothing" in any scientific papers describing the vacuum? I haven't.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
I don't see "nothing" as a physics term. ...
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
True but remember I also said this:
originally posted by: ImaFungi
Those are all unscientific phrases.
Krauss may use the term "nothing" in a book directed to the public, but do you see the word "nothing" in any scientific papers describing the vacuum? I haven't.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
I don't see "nothing" as a physics term. ...
So decide if you want to talk the real complex physics terms, or if you want to talk in "simplified language" for the general public using physics that's not too deep.
originally posted by: ImaFungi
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
True but remember I also said this:
originally posted by: ImaFungi
Those are all unscientific phrases.
Krauss may use the term "nothing" in a book directed to the public, but do you see the word "nothing" in any scientific papers describing the vacuum? I haven't.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
I don't see "nothing" as a physics term. ...
So decide if you want to talk the real complex physics terms, or if you want to talk in "simplified language" for the general public using physics that's not too deep.
Yes ok, you are made of nothing because atoms are nothing really, you are nothing. Everything came from nothing, everythings nothing, yay.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: ImaFungi
If you're broke, and you take out a $1000 loan from a loan shark, you have $1000 in one hand and a debt note in the other hand that sort of cancel each other out. I wouldn't say it's nothing but it adds up to zero.
I guess some people have the idea that certain aspects of the universe can also add up to zero. I have no idea if that's true or not but I understand the concept. If the concept is true then the creation of the universe could be something like broke person getting a loan from the loan shark, because your balance sheet is still zero.
originally posted by: dragonridr
but given enough time the uncertainty principle guarantees a universe will apear where before nothing existed.
originally posted by: ImaFungi
originally posted by: dragonridr
but given enough time the uncertainty principle guarantees a universe will apear where before nothing existed.
And by 'where before nothing existed' you mean; 'where before an equal quantity of non baryonic and leptonic matter existed, just in a form that doesnt look like this universe does right now'.
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: ImaFungi
originally posted by: dragonridr
but given enough time the uncertainty principle guarantees a universe will apear where before nothing existed.
And by 'where before nothing existed' you mean; 'where before an equal quantity of non baryonic and leptonic matter existed, just in a form that doesnt look like this universe does right now'.
No not at all nothing existed before the big bang. our universe could have spun off a completely empty eleven dimensional universe with no spin, no charge and no energy. The nothingness in this universe was unstable and could have caused a fluctuation in the vacuum.This would cause our universe to pinch off from its empty existence without time and space to a universe that was large enough to expand. Just imagine bubbles being created and destroyed our universe had to grow instantaneously in order to survive and escape the collapsing fate of small bubbles. Bottom line is one possibility is before the big bang universes just exist as bubbles in the 11th dimension at least according to string theory.
originally posted by: ImaFungi
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: ImaFungi
originally posted by: dragonridr
but given enough time the uncertainty principle guarantees a universe will apear where before nothing existed.
And by 'where before nothing existed' you mean; 'where before an equal quantity of non baryonic and leptonic matter existed, just in a form that doesnt look like this universe does right now'.
No not at all nothing existed before the big bang. our universe could have spun off a completely empty eleven dimensional universe with no spin, no charge and no energy. The nothingness in this universe was unstable and could have caused a fluctuation in the vacuum.This would cause our universe to pinch off from its empty existence without time and space to a universe that was large enough to expand. Just imagine bubbles being created and destroyed our universe had to grow instantaneously in order to survive and escape the collapsing fate of small bubbles. Bottom line is one possibility is before the big bang universes just exist as bubbles in the 11th dimension at least according to string theory.
The total quantity of energy that exists now has always existed and will always exist. I am right. You are wrong.
But that would take us too far. The main lesson here is that general relativity is not a theory that requires physical objects or fields to propagate in a pre-existing translationally invariant spacetime. That's why the corresponding energy conservation law justified by Noether's argument either fails, or becomes approximate, or becomes vacuous, or survives exclusively in spacetimes that preserve their "special relativistic" structure at infinity. At any rate, the status of energy conservation changes when you switch from special relativity to general relativity.
originally posted by: mbkennel
originally posted by: ImaFungi
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: ImaFungi
originally posted by: dragonridr
but given enough time the uncertainty principle guarantees a universe will apear where before nothing existed.
And by 'where before nothing existed' you mean; 'where before an equal quantity of non baryonic and leptonic matter existed, just in a form that doesnt look like this universe does right now'.
No not at all nothing existed before the big bang. our universe could have spun off a completely empty eleven dimensional universe with no spin, no charge and no energy. The nothingness in this universe was unstable and could have caused a fluctuation in the vacuum.This would cause our universe to pinch off from its empty existence without time and space to a universe that was large enough to expand. Just imagine bubbles being created and destroyed our universe had to grow instantaneously in order to survive and escape the collapsing fate of small bubbles. Bottom line is one possibility is before the big bang universes just exist as bubbles in the 11th dimension at least according to string theory.
The total quantity of energy that exists now has always existed and will always exist. I am right. You are wrong.
In the extremely large cosmological regime (e.g. Big Bang, inflation, general relativity, not anything relevant on Earth) this isn't completely true as the issue gets more complicated.
motls.blogspot.com...
Summary at the end:
But that would take us too far. The main lesson here is that general relativity is not a theory that requires physical objects or fields to propagate in a pre-existing translationally invariant spacetime. That's why the corresponding energy conservation law justified by Noether's argument either fails, or becomes approximate, or becomes vacuous, or survives exclusively in spacetimes that preserve their "special relativistic" structure at infinity. At any rate, the status of energy conservation changes when you switch from special relativity to general relativity.
originally posted by: ImaFungi
My statements are undeniably true, noone has proposed a valid argument against them, the only things that have been proposed are faulty math equations and concepts using man made muddled terminology and misinterpretations of tools used to 'best as we can' measure reality, to try and do what I am doing, easily and obviously, which is make true statements about the nature of reality.
originally posted by: ImaFungi
My statements are undeniably true, noone has proposed a valid argument against them, the only things that have been proposed are faulty math equations and concepts using man made muddled terminology and misinterpretations of tools used to 'best as we can' measure reality, to try and do what I am doing, easily and obviously, which is make true statements about the nature of reality.
originally posted by: mbkennel
originally posted by: ImaFungi
My statements are undeniably true, noone has proposed a valid argument against them, the only things that have been proposed are faulty math equations and concepts using man made muddled terminology and misinterpretations of tools used to 'best as we can' measure reality, to try and do what I am doing, easily and obviously, which is make true statements about the nature of reality.
You used to be interested in learning physics, as in the blog article I linked to, instead of exhibiting megalomania.
originally posted by: ErosA433
originally posted by: ImaFungi
My statements are undeniably true, noone has proposed a valid argument against them, the only things that have been proposed are faulty math equations and concepts using man made muddled terminology and misinterpretations of tools used to 'best as we can' measure reality, to try and do what I am doing, easily and obviously, which is make true statements about the nature of reality.
By stating various things over and over, and asking to be proven wrong, does not mean the statements you have made are true (if people do not or can not prove you wrong). what this is is a fallacy of logic. It is partly why I get frustrated sometimes discussing subjects which are not trivial, and are reduced to trivial statements of the use of language and rather child like games of "Well did you go and do it yourself, no? so how do you know" Getting into philosophical discussions about meanings and truths is fine, if that is what it is. Trying to do full circle and re-attach unkempt air walks through the clouds back to reality is not something that is easy to argue against without the serious party sounding like a bully or exhibiting arrogance.