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[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

There reason there is something instead of nothing is survivorship bias. Since nothing is nothing, including no time, there will ALWAYS be something because nothing can't exist outside of something.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, nothing doesn't exist?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What is everywhere, then?

Nothing.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In the year negative never and also now, nothing is nothing. When? NO

https://youtu.be/wjU9BA68zyU?si=Nry0S2foJmRaNj1f

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That's pretty nifty, I would say.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I don’t know is on third.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Nothing only exists when you have something to compare it to.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, but why is there something to experience survivorship bias? Why is any of this at all instead of just not anything?

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

The godhead got bored and felt like playing hide-and-seek.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

No reason. It's just that when there wasn't anything to experience it, nobody asked themselves that question.

So the question is a consequence of our existence, and that's the answer

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Your consciousness is something though. This doesn't answer the question as it assumes your consciousness has to exist, to experience survivorship bias. Why is there anything, including tour consciousness, rather than nothing? And your scenario, where there is nothing and something, and your consciousness is in the something, presumes a reality with something. So if doesn't answer the question. It's like someone asking 'why does 1+1=2' and you say 'because 0+1+1=2'

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Honestly the only way to make sense of any of this that I have ever found is panpsychism, Advaita Vedanta etc.

This is all just a “dream” or non-computational “simulation”. Everything is consciousness. Physics is an emergent feature of consciousness.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Should mix in normal ones like

Why do some farts feel really warm?

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Ya I guess you are right, I've felt it but never looked it up

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

and "cat photos"

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Valentina sauce

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Why do all of his sessions end in entropy.

... I don't even understand his euphemisms any more

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes of course. Its just that, when that happens, all the atoms start falling apart, or clumping together.

Things that weren't radioactive before? Now they are. Iron in your blood? Radioactive.

This is, of course, sub-optimal.

[–] Jeredin@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Best I can do is, QFT...

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on you googling those questions will lead to nothing else other than seo spam.

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

PBS Spacetime 🙏

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Go harder!

Relativity approaching the Planck level.

Wave function and the Quantum Eraser experiment.

Quantum molecular physics and time crystals.

[–] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I was litterly just down that brain rabbit hole