Originally Posted By: socratus
Originally Posted By: redewenur
Any 'nothing' that can host a law
or a deity or anything else,
either concrete or abstract,
is not absolutely nothing.


In brief: Any 'nothing' is not absolutely nothing

That's not exactly what I attempted to say, i.e. that absolute 'nothing' is a valid concept that excludes any kind of existence whatsoever. So for me, it appears true that 'something', not absolute 'nothing', produced our universe.
The kind of 'nothing' that physicists say can produce 'something' is not absolutely nothing.


"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler