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Frank Close talks about nothing

Can Nothing exist? Does nature abhor a vacuum? What happened before the Big Bang? Frank Close, Professor of Physics at Oxford University, talks about the bizarre discoveries science makes when you ...  
 
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rivestalex (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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As an artist who has studied 'nothing' extensively in his work, I have found Close's book to be riveting. It is a pleasure to share similar passions about such a mind-boggling issue.
jimmyh2o (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Projecting outwards, even the thought of "nothing" is a finite something. But how are we aware that nothing is something to contemplate?Awareness aware of awareness, is nothing. You are awareness.
DrMontague (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Give a little whistle. Always look on the bright side of life. We came from nothing we are going back to nothing. What is there to worry about?nothing.Life a pile ashit when you look at it!
DrMontague (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Frank Close = Corn Flakes
This is what he was two years before he was born. A packet of Kellogs's corn flakes!
drukenhard (4 months ago) Show Hide
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And after we die we then break down into nutrients that are recycled through the natural system.

Gives a lot of weight to reincarnation....if you consider that our "soul" is caused by the collection of our particles working together....some which would have come from other souls broken down by nature.

loved the line - "I wrote a book about nothing, I hope you find something in it"

Might try and find this book, sounds interesting!
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'Gives a lot of weight to reincarnation'
No it does not.. Recycling but not reincarnation.
TheLifeWeLiveEh (7 months ago) Show Hide
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where was i before i was born? i was the beef inside of a cow and i was the nutirents ready to be absorbed by a vegetable. My atoms were spread across the landscape. The deeper question though is why am i me? My physical self is a temporary collaboration of all these atoms but my mental self is... well why am I that? and that begs the question, what is me, beyond these neurons sparking messages to each other? i'm obviously something because i am these things, but why me? why not someone else?
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This could be due to existentialism. You experience the world from your perspective that is unique to you. I can infer what you experience but I can never know e.g. if we were both to break a leg how do I know I'm experiencing the pain your experiencing? Another argument is Sigmund Freuds theory of personality development..
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korgasm (1 year ago) Show Hide
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all of that is explainable, oh and where was i 2 years before i was born , the closest thing to me would have been earlier genetic codes. . .oh and 99.999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999% of all matter is OUTSIDE EARTH...not here on earth. if you take it all away..well, you cant , but what if you could...erm , you cant..end of story, nice book.

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