[extropy-chat] Nothingness and that Infinite Chain of Causes thingy.

[steven mckenzie]

is there really nothing?

--- gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:49:52 -0400, scerir
> <scerir at libero.it> wrote:
> 
> > The reason that I insist that a Multiverse exists,
> > is based on the observations that our Universe
> > is approximately 15 Billion years old.
> > If Nothingness behaves as I suggest,
> > then the first "something" [the first
> > Universe if you like] should be infinitely
> > (or nearly infinitely) old.
> 
> To a layman like myself this seems like a pretty
> convincing argument.  
> Please tell me if this paraphrase more or less
> captures your meaning:
> 
> "If ours is not one universe in a multiverse, then
> its origin would be  
> infinitely in the past. Instead it seems to have
> taken [(infinite time) -  
> (~15 billion years)] for this stable universe of
> ours to have come into  
> existence. Moreover, this same argument for the
> existence of a multiverse  
> can be made by any scientist/philosopher of any
> existent universe of any  
> finite age."
> 
> I have to wonder if you are not making an error when
> you refer to the  
> supposed behavior of nothingness. How can "nothing"
> ever "behave" in any  
> way at all? :) I've tried to eliminate that error in
> my paraphrase, I hope  
> not at the expense of your true meaning.
> 
> -gts
> 
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