Re: [asa] Quantum Physics: Something from Nothing?

Huh, so is there not such thing as 'nothing' or is there such a thing
but you believe that we humans cannot conceive of such. Wild
speculations at best.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu> wrote:
> There is no such thing as "nothing." Humans cannot conceive of nothingness only a Creator can. Quantum field theory does indicate that a particle and an antiparticle pair can be created out of the vacuum. However, the vacuum is not really "nothing" but a rather complicated state of the system, the ground state.
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> Is it accurate to state that quantum physics demonstrates that "something can come from nothing?"
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