Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing?--Sean M. Carroll

BidenPresident said:
Leibniz believed nothing truly interacts with another; no efficient cause. Hard for some to accept. Each atom, person, object, only acts out it own reality.
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Leibnitz was proved wrong, wasn't he? Seems like Solipsism.

The impact event below was most likely set in motion at the Big Bang and would follow its path unless human beings or some other intelligent force acts upon it.

Any randomness was at the beginning. After that, it's all trajectories except where people are involved.

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Dutch Uncle said:
Leibnitz was proved wrong, wasn't he? Seems like Solipsism.

The impact event below was most likely set in motion at the Big Bang and would follow its path unless human beings or some other intelligent force acts upon it.

Any randomness was at the beginning. After that, it's all trajectories except where people are involved.

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Leibniz was a major critic of Newton's concept of absolute space and time. He was a physical relativist before Einstein showed the math.
Paradoxically, Leibniz had no concept of randomness in physics. Yet that concept can be applied to physical interactions since nothing actually affects anything else.

Leibniz believed nothingness was a real possibility. He thought God chose a world because it is better to exist than not exist. But there is no necessity in there being a world.

For me, randomness means that just because things happened a certain way does not mean they had to occur that way, or at all. There is nothing necessary about life on our planet and occurred randomly. The sequence of events were randomly connected.
 
One reason people don't accept randomness is we associate it with history and the past. We cannot go to yesterday and brush our teeth at 11:15 instead of 11.
We can debate causes of the Civil War but not that it happened the way it did with specific battles.
 
BidenPresident said:
Leibniz was a major critic of Newton's concept of absolute space and time. He was a physical relativist before Einstein showed the math.
Paradoxically, Leibniz had no concept of randomness in physics. Yet that concept can be applied to physical interactions since nothing actually affects anything else.

Leibniz believed nothingness was a real possibility. He thought God chose a world because it is better to exist than not exist. But there is no necessity in there being a world.

For me, randomness means that just because things happened a certain way does not mean they had to occur that way, or at all. There is nothing necessary about life on our planet and occurred randomly. The sequence of events were randomly connected.
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Newton's First Law of Motion. Things in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an external force. In the asteroid example, the randomness was at the Big Bang. After that it's like billiard balls bouncing around until they run into something.

At the moment, if scientists spotted a 6 mile wide asteroid headed directly for us, there's very little we could do with the information.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/pl...e-rock-did-wipe-out-the-dinosaurs-experts-say
Will we ever get a solid answer on what killed the dinosaurs? According to a new "K-T Boundary Dream Team" comprising of 41 international experts, including geophysicists and paleontologists, yes, the question has been settled: An asteroid is indeed to blame. For years, scientists have argued over different theories of what killed the dinos--including one hypothesis that has gained ground recently, which suggests that massive volcanic activity in India's Deccan Traps wiped them out 65 million years ago. However, the latest expert panel stuck to the asteroid theory, saying a massive impact wiped out the dinos and more than half of the Earth's other species. The panel's review was published in the journal Science. After studying all the available data on the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction, the panel concluded that the catastrophic event was caused by a 6-mile-wide asteroid that struck Earth at an angle of 90 degrees and a speed of about 12.4 miles per second – about 20 times faster than a speeding bullet [Guardian]. The asteroid hit Chicxulub, Mexico, with a force one billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima [Science Daily News].

The impact of the crash would have triggered large scale fires, landslides, earthquakes that measured 10 on the Richter scale, and subsequent tsunamis, scientists said. Debris loosened by the impact would have shrouded the planet, clouding the skies, causing a global darkness, and "killing off many species that couldn't adapt to this hellish environment" according to study coauthor Joanna Morgan.
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This is spit in your face.

We’re going to the condo for a couple of days.

Air fare, rent a car. Driving from one condo to the other.
The hotel room. I like this one. Approved by the bank.
Approved by the board.

Walks in like he owns the place.

Don’t touch this, it’s not yours. You have no business in that room.
Using bath towels. Sleeps in who’s bed?


 
BidenPresident said:
Nothingness is not just the absence of things in space. Where is space?
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That's incorrect. I'm not a physicist, but I've read my share of physics books written for the intelligent layman and I know that the common perception of "nothingness" isn't the same as nothing in physics. Even a total vacuum is full of activity at the quantum level.
 
It’s the stool machine before the stool machine.

I was hanging out with the Jewish kid today. The one that worked on the circular LHDS machines.
The universal was all the same computer language. It didn’t matter if it was circular or flat. Any body seen Bruce? :palm:


Joey Relay - This has nothing to do with me.

The Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction shall oversee, coordinate and supervise assessment and standardized testing; curriculum planning, implementation, and evaluation; program development and evaluation; career and vocational education; and professional development.

First day of Kidergarten. What’s that say on the wall.
He read that random piece of writing fluent right in front of the teacher.
He hasn’t started kindergarten yet.
When ever I walk in the room I feel like the little retarded kid.
Everyone is happy and greats me with a smile.

The guys peddling dope. We’re playing organized ball. Get this puxxy out of here.
 
American Man said:
That's incorrect. I'm not a physicist, but I've read my share of physics books written for the intelligent layman and I know that the common perception of "nothingness" isn't the same as nothing in physics. Even a total vacuum is full of activity at the quantum level.
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Vacuum is not the issue. You clearly don't comprehend
 
Answer to Sean Michael Carroll's question, Why is there something rather than nothing?

It's impossible to know at this point, Dr. Carroll, but one thing we know for sure.

Whatever force of nature or fate caused that to happen made the most horrific mistake of all time.
 
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