Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:How

March 21, 2012 at 4:20 pm #87987

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Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:

How are ‘absences’ nothing? And, if there is a dialectic going on here, then this ‘something’ must be ‘struggling’ with this ‘nothing’. Do we see this in computing, or in genetics?

Two perfect circles would make very bad clockwork, the gaps between the teeth are not there, and yet they make the whole thing go. They are defined by the something of the cogs. Likewise in the electron states of semi conductors which are either on or off: there is a definite somehing that is nothing.

Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:

Of course, the Big Bang Theory is about origins; it says nothing about universal interconnection right now; in fact, as I pointed out, if relativity is correct, then not everything can be interconnected (that was the point of the link I posted about light cones).

Except everything is interconnected by its share of the initial energy impetus, if everything was once all part of one sub-microscopic spot. If we expand the light cone back, then everything in the universe leads up to point E in the diagram in that article.

Rosa Lichtenstein wrote:

“Leaving aside the bendier aspects of relativity which suggest that light may well be everywhere at once (IIRC)”There is no way that this can be confirmed, but even if it could, what has it got to do with the idea that everything is interconnected?

All light is everywhere and all light is in contact with everything at once, then everything is interconnected via light. It could be, from a certain point of view, that the universe is one still spot of light that we misinterpret as having dimensions. Certainly, Great Cthulhu thinks so.