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[Phillip McCleod]

25. excellent response imo.

i think Feynman was being conservative.. nothingness is almost absurd. works great on paper but even there it took awhile before the idea of zero was formalized. it's still special isn't it? can't divide by zero. it's an identity element, like unity it effects other numbers differently depending on the operation involved .. which is up to us to axiomatically define.

nothingness is an idea, and to my knowledge none of the big bang theories posit something from nothing, but rather something thermodynamically heterogeneous from something homogeneous.

there's even a version of the big bang theory.. about a decade old if my memory serves and by a japanese team.. which posits that the big bang is still happening. always happening. that past and future are extraneous and even confusing elements of the model. let's call it the 'be here now bang theory'