Let There Be Something

From: <daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:33:57 -0400

I guess I'll "break the symmetry" of relative silence on this list
lately.

I just don't get how it can be rationally justified that you can get
something out of nothing. To me, combining the multiverse with a
selection principle does not explain anything. I see no reason why it
is not mathematically equivalent to our universe appearing out of
nothing. And I see the belief that our universe appeared out of
nothing as just that, a belief. In fact, I believe that. But I don't
see how it makes one iota more rational, "scientific" sense to try to
explain it with a Plenitude and the Anthropic Principle. It's like a
probability argument that poses the existence of as much unobservable
stuff out there as we need, along with the well-behaved unobservable
probability distribution we need, in order to give us a fuzzy feeling
in terms of probability as we know it in our comfortable immediate
surroundings. Sounds like blind faith to me.
Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 12:36:42 PDT