I don't think so.
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Time? No...I'm reasonably certain. Time arises as an intrinsic component of change-of-state of phenomena. Phenomena are readily observed to change state (even if uncertainty in those observations is inevitable), and state change implies "time" by logical necessity. Without time, "before" and "after" are incoherent concepts. Nothingness has, by definition, no capacity for state change...and thus no time. Space is trickier...a lot trickier. Simple vacuum is not "nothingness," and that's pretty much a matter of experimentally-determined fact. We don't experience or observe genuine nothingness; for us it's purely conceptual, given that our entire existence is based on "somethingness" (if you'll excuse that linguistic atrocity). In genuine, complete nothingness, are concepts like spatial dimensions have any coherent meaning or applicability? Would it be possible to validly "hold a yardstick up to" (as it were) any form of nothingness? Measurement itself implies something to measure, not nothing. When we mentally apply volume to a mental concept of nothing, is that application even remotely justified? Matters like this are why I studied (and continue to study) philosophy of science.
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For 7:77 ... A quick View of the Universe - Mondo Fuego™ June 26, 2026, 11:46 am
- In other words facts are practically non-existent. - GOG June 30, 2026, 7:11 am
- The ultimate "who done it" (as you say) - trish June 27, 2026, 12:05 pm
- Re: For 7:77 ... A quick View of the Universe - 7:77 June 27, 2026, 10:09 am
- I don't believe in infinite sameness.
- Ken C June 27, 2026, 6:59 am
- Nope! - observer June 26, 2026, 1:45 pm
- Time ... - Mondo Fuego™ June 26, 2026, 10:23 pm
- I, too, think it’s infinite which ultimately leads to one of the most - observer June 26, 2026, 11:57 am
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