I would like to thank those who have contributed to this thread. Although, as Rede pointed out, we were returning, yet again, to a well worn theme, the quality and quantity of responses, not to mention any feelings that might have been stirred, would tend to indicate that all that could be said had not already been said.

The point we seem to have reached is that we are saying that when cosmologists refer to “nothing” they are not using the term in the way it is generally used in everyday life. That may be confusing, but it seems preferable to opting for an “Alice in Wonderland” sort of logic that says: something can come from nothing, because nothing is something.

There never was nothing.