The question should be 'How can something come out of nothing' not 'Why cannot something come out of nothing'. Stephen Hawkings has recently argued as to how the universe can come out of nothing, but to my mind his argument is rather circular and it's not provable.
I understand why it has to exist, but how can zero exist, if zero is nothing, then nothing is something witch means that zero cant exist, I have seen similar questions but I still don't get it, he
Throughout the history of time, it has been almost everyone’s intuition that something cannot come from nothing. That intuition is so strong that many can’t even imagine this to be false. But would...
5 Krauss' definition of nothing is the result of the allergy contemporary physicists get from philosophy; the philosopher David Albert posted a crushing criticism of the book in response and started a terrible fight: Where, for starters, are the laws of quantum mechanics themselves supposed to have come from?
Is or was there a philosophy which examines a hypothesis that in fact nothing "exists" except maybe questions? I know there are philosophies that state that reality is a simulation etc. but I mean...
Is nothing really nothing or is it something? Like is 0 something or nothing? And if nothing is something then would it be right to say that if nothing existed, something existed. And something mus...
The Dutch 19th century writer Multatuli (the first to vehemently criticize Dutch colonialism in Indonesia) once wrote this variantion on the Liar: "Perhaps nothing is completely true, and even that isn't."
Yet even though nothing is something, something is something in itself, and therefore can not be nothing. This could also apply to "Can something be anything (or everything)?".
My understanding is that the key to understanding the phrase is surprisingly simple. According to Michael Wood in the London Review of Books: "It did not hold, as many of its detractors thought it did, that there was no reality apart from language, and it’s wrong to translate Derrida’s famous ‘Il n’y a pas de hors-texte’ as ‘there is nothing outside the text.’ A hors-texte is an ...
