Posted: Mar 15, 2010 2:34 am
The Doctor wrote:Physicist Victor J. Stenger calculated that there is around a 60% chance that something can come out of nothing, since nothing is unstable. Is "nothing" unstable?
"How do we define 'nothing'? What are its properties? If it has properties, doesn't that make it something?"
(Stenger, Victor J. God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does not Exist. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007. p. 132)
It does. Whatever is something and not nothing is an entity and not a nonentity, and so what Stenger describes as a "transition from nothing-to-something" (p. 133) is actually a transition from something-to-something.
It is extremely misleading to call something a nothing that is actually a something!