[extropy-chat] Re: Why is there something instead of nothing? (fwd from egh at istar.ca)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Eric Hawthorne <egh at istar.ca>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:13:02 -0800
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Subject: Re: Why is there something instead of nothing?
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In the spirit of this list, one might instead phrase the question as:

Why is there everything instead of nothing?

As soon as we have that there is everything, then we have that some aspects
of everything will mold themselves into observable universes.

It is unsatisfying though true to observe that there of course cannot be
a case in which the question itself can be asked, and there simultaneously
be nothing in that universe.

I'm with the last respondent though in thinking that the right answer is
that there is BOTH nothing and everything, but that the nothing is 
necessarily
inherently unobservable by curious questioners like ourselves.


Norman Samish wrote: Why is there something instead of nothing?

>Does this question have an answer?  I think the question shows there is a
>limit to our understanding of things and is unanswerable.  Does anybody
>disagree?
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>Norman
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