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

[gts]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:30:58 -0400, The Avantguardian  
<avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> But there is only single way to have "nothing". Thus
> nothing is not probabilistically favored because it
> is too orderly to be at all a thermodynamically stable
> state.

I think Jeffery (AB) was referring not to the kind of nothingness that  
would exist in a true vacuum, (in which case thermodynamic considerations  
would apply), but rather to the sort of nothingness as seen in the eastern  
concept of The Void, which is not even the nothingness of a vacuum. A  
perfect vacuum would after all contain time and space, which is hardly  
nothing. How can Nothingness (or void) be said to have any order  
whatsoever?

Here's a riddle for ya': if all matter and antimatter in Universe were  
suddenly to vanish, would Universe continue to exist as an immense perfect  
vacuum? Or would it become Void in the eastern sense, lacking even space  
and time, something like a singularity?

Or would the answer perhaps just be a stale old quesadilla? ;)

-gts