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An artist's exploration of Philosophy, Science, Psychology, UFOs, extraterrestrial life, NDEs, conspiracy theories, etc. with whatever meager critical thinking skills he has at the time…

Book Reviews: Getting a Universe From Nothing

By kenraines September 16, 2020 Book Review, Nothing, Philosophy No Comments

A Review of A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing, by Lawrence Krauss; The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the Universe, by John Barrow; The Grand Design, by Leonard Mlodinow and Stephen Hawking I just finished reading The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. I thought I would give a brief review of this and the other two books listed above. All deal with the subject of “nothing,” the universe perhaps coming from “nothing,” and the physicists here who claim this has relevance to, or even…

Do Physicists Know Nothing?

By kenraines August 18, 2020 Equivocation, Fallacies, Logic, Nothing 1 Comment

The title of this post is ambiguous. I meant it to be as several physicists, including some of the most prominent ones have been, not just ambiguous, but downright equivocating on the word “nothing.” As in the fallacy of equivocation. This post explains the informal logical fallacy of equivocation and gives the example of how some physicists commit the fallacy when trying to explain how the universe came from “nothing.” The Fallacy of Equivocation The fallacy of equivocation is using two different meanings or senses for the same word or phrase in the same argument. It is easy to define…