Originally Posted By: Bill S.
To talk of nothing that is really something is butchering the English language. "Absolutely nothing" is a tautology that becomes a necessity only when one starts messing about with nothingness.
It's not a tautology, Bill, it's a means of labeling different two concepts of nothing. Perhaps you might say that the physicists in question have been "messing about with nothingness"
Originally Posted By: Bill S.
Why can't we just have "nothing" and "something" and find another term for that kind of 'nothing' that physicists say can produce 'something'.
All you have to do is convince those physicists who insist that something did come from nothing, that the 'nothing' they refer to is in fact 'something'.


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