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

Well, the house contains dust, air so 'nothing' here refers to
'nothing personal'. How is this relevant to our discussion?

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu> wrote:
> Suppose you are moving from your house and move everything from the house that belongs to you. You may say that there is nothing in the house. How about the space enclosed in a given room. Is that nothing? Of course not!
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> Moorad
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> From: PvM [mailto:pvm.pandas@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sun 8/10/2008 10:46 PM
> To: Alexanian, Moorad
> Cc: David Opderbeck; ASA
> Subject: Re: [asa] Quantum Physics: Something from Nothing?
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> So why could a creator conceive of nothingness and others could not?
> In fact, just because you may be unable to conceive of this, does not
> mean that others cannot do so.
> Nothing is just that, the absence of anything, a void.
> Do you have any positive evidence?
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> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu> wrote:
>> Do try to conceive of nothingness and let us know what it is!
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>> Moorad
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>> From: PvM [mailto:pvm.pandas@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sun 8/10/2008 7:35 PM
>> To: Alexanian, Moorad
>> Cc: David Opderbeck; ASA
>> Subject: Re: [asa] Quantum Physics: Something from Nothing?
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>>> Moorad
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>>> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of David Opderbeck
>>> Sent: Sun 8/10/2008 11:23 AM
>>> To: ASA
>>> Subject: [asa] Quantum Physics: Something from Nothing?
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>>> Is it accurate to state that quantum physics demonstrates that "something can come from nothing?"
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>>> David W. Opderbeck
>>> Associate Professor of Law
>>> Seton Hall University Law School
>>> Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology
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