Re: something from nothing ?
Dale <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:18:26 -0500
| Newsgroups | free.metaphysics,talk.religion.newage,talk.religion.pantheism,alt.agnosticism,alt.atheism |
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On 1/21/2026 12:52 PM, Dawn Flood wrote: > On 1/21/2026 9:04 AM, Dale wrote: >> On 1/21/2026 9:44 AM, Dawn Flood wrote: >>> On 1/20/2026 8:38 PM, Dale wrote: >>>> On 1/14/2026 11:24 PM, Dawn Flood wrote: >>>>> On 1/14/2026 7:29 PM, Dale wrote: >>>>>> On 1/11/2026 11:23 AM, Dawn Flood wrote: >>>>>>> On 1/11/2026 10:18 AM, Dale wrote: >>>>>>>> On 1/11/2026 10:05 AM, Dawn Flood wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 1/10/2026 2:13 PM, Dale wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> something from nothing ? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> magic ? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> if nothing comes to God's mind does God make something out of >>>>>>>>>> it ? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> https://www.dalekelly.org/yuga.html >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Maybe the Cosmos is eternal, and without a beginning: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I like my version of Yuga Cycles >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://www.dalekelly.org/yuga.html >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Yuga Cycles are Hindu Universal Cause and Effect. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Brahma is the Creation Cycle. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Vishnu is the Maintenance Cycle. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Shiva is the Destruction Cycle. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Kali is the Female Cycle. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Here are some things I add ... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Each Cycle is a mindset of a Single God. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Kali stops the Shiva Destruction. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Kali allows Eternal Vishnu Maintenance, Including Maintenance of >>>>>>>> the availability of Creation. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Kali births new New Brahma Creation for those of New Creation too. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> All (or some) of that may be true, or none of it may be true; >>>>>>> it's outside of Science. You're free to believe in "whatever" >>>>>>> you want to believe in; others are free to do the same. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Dawn >>>>>> >>>>>> science can be outside of logic too ? >>>>>> >>>>>> quantum uncertainty ? >>>>>> >>>>>> what are the possibilities of digital and analog computing ? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I see the differences as being between the formal, empirical and >>>>> quasi- sciences; for the first category, such would be mathematics, >>>>> logic, etc.; for the second, physics, chemistry, biology, >>>>> sociology, etc.; and, for the last, things like the study of >>>>> history, which insists on the existence of evidences to support >>>>> one's conclusions. >>>>> >>>>> In any case, evidence is key, as opposed to faith, feeling, >>>>> authority, religious beliefs and/or traditions, etc. >>>>> >>>>> Dawn >>>> >>>> >>>> induction, deduction >>>> >>>> reversible induction or deduction is hypothesis >>>> >>>> testable hypothesis is theory >>>> >>>> theory sampling can include a statistical assumption >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> No. See here: >>> >>> https://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution-resources >> >> >> are you saying you can test the beginning of a virtual particle >> without out having magic ? >> >> part of the whole is the concept of nothing and the whole can use it ? >> >> part of the whole is also conscious ? >> > > No, science is about building models and testing those models through > experiment, observation, or, in the case of the formal sciences > (mathematics, logic, etc.), formal proofs. As for virtual particles, > such is the domain of QFT (Quantum Field Theory), and I am not an expert > in that; there are physicists who explain that. The late Professor > Steven Weinberg wrote a 3-volume tome on QFT; I haven't read it, but > that is where people should go if they really want to understand such > things on a quantitative level. On a more qualitative level, the > Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle allows for the existence of such > particles, and Google AI has a nice description of that. > > Dawn all science starts with its philosophy ... induction, deduction reversible induction or deduction is hypothesis testable hypothesis is theory theory sampling can include a statistical assumption -- Mystery? -> https://www.dalekelly.org/