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Subject: nothing from nothing leaves...nothing.

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Damoclese

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Date Posted: 04/29/04 2:37pm
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "Much ado about nothing" on 04/29/04 12:58pm

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>Nothing is better defined as "the absence of all
>magnitude or quantity," the complete absence of
>anything and everything.

I don't know that it's "better defined" as that as my definiton is the modern definition of the word.

However, a vast array of quantum fluctuations is precisely the complete absence of anything and everything. It IS nothing; the very heart of nothingness.

Thus, a fluctuating sea of
>energy is not literal nothingness.

When you speak of nothing, what you are actually talking about is the "sea of fluctuating energy" which makes it very literal.

Literal
>nothingness would mean a complete lack of anything,
>including a sea of energy.

No, it wouldn't. Everything we understand nothing to be is a sea of ever changing energy states. The net affect or sum of this energy is 0 which is absolutely nothing and also why we don't see a bunch of stuff moving around in the best nothing we can perhaps envision--space.

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Subject	Author	Date
Beware the fallacy of equivocation.	Wade A. Tisthammer	05/ 2/04 3:20pm
Imagining -- Damoclese, 05/ 4/04 9:43am Imagining ex nihilo -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 7/04 2:31pm End game -- Damoclese, 05/ 7/04 4:42pm Are ee ess pee ee see tee. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/10/04 4:09pm