Posted on 08/16/2018 3:02:08 AM PDT by LibWhacker
“Is empty space really the same as nothing?”
What a vacuous question.
My understanding is that the vacuum is the most massive and energetic object in the Universe.
Space is packed solid with photons. God is light.
I.e. ...
No. He means within 2% precision, or 98%accuracy.
So, does this guy actually believe that he knows how the universe formed with 98% accuracy?
Ping
Lol, sorry, would’ve gotten my chuckle in earlier except for this maddening connection problem I’ve been having.
Yes, which proves they’re not guessing!
Did you read the article? That’s not at all what he said.
I haven’t heard that before, but I could believe it. I wonder if they’re talking about the virtual particles contained in the space, or the fabric of the space itself? Or both (i.e., Do they go hand in hand and one can’t exist without the other)?
The headline sounds line the name of a movie. Please tell me, is a dimension a place where you can go, or is it a measurement?
Not at all!
If you read the article, he’s basically saying “we don’t know”, we’re not sure”, “we may be to stupid to understand”, et cetera, etc.
Bleakly honest, really.
Neither. The dictionary says a dimension is a measurable extent of some kind, such as length, width, etc.
I did read the article, and saw what you were talking about; i.e. the “we don’t know”, we’re not sure”, etc. But then he adds the 2% statement which seemed to diametrically oppose everything he said before.
A simple magnet will exert force in a vacuum.
You don’t need anything more exotic than electric fields to explain much of what we observe. String theory and dark matter are dead end ideas.
It’s not diametrically opposed. Think about what statisticians do... They’ll say, “We don’t know; we’re not sure, but here’s a 95% confidence interval for the quantity in question.”. Such language is the language of science.
This is about the science of empty ( vacuum) versus the ancient experience of mind/heart in its natural uncluttered state, traditionally called “Sunyata” by the Buddhist saints of India,”Mu” in Japan, and in the West” emptiness.”
The ancients saw emptiness of mind/heart , the nature of mind uncluttered by discursive thought , achievable only through the joyful discipline of Shamatha ( resting the mind in peace) meditation, as the gateway to both great compassion and ultimate perception.
The science of vacuum and what goes on within it, is about how we can perceive the physics of emptiness/vacuum, which is but one of many thousands of aspects of Sunyata itself, from which everything arises, its major characteristics are that Emptiness as a body of being (Dharmakaya) is actually unceasing, un-originated, unconditional. Absolute nature is the Dharmakaya, the ‘empty’, unconditioned truth, into which illusion and ignorance, and any kind of concept, have never entered.
The Science of Emptiness is full of concept, but has the possibility of great wisdom generated by the ultimate perception which can come from the cultivation of Sunyata through Shamataha meditation itself.
The two, science emptiness and the direct uncluttered perception of mind /heart can be joined.
Further reading:
https://tricycle.org/magazine/becoming-buddha-2/
I haven’t heard that before, but I could believe it. I wonder if they’re talking about the virtual particles contained in the space, or the fabric of the space itself? Or both (i.e., Do they go hand in hand and one can’t exist without the other)?
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I think it has to do with the energy of expansion, plus it’s so darn big.
I think I’ll look it up and report back.
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