Nothing? What is your conception of "nothing?" Because what transpired from the LHC was certainly not something coming from absolute nothingness.
Well in the extra 2000 years that Aqobot invoked I would hope that mankind has progressed beyond the LHC!!!
Even if we created all that Aqobot describes from "something" rather than "nothing" would this not suggest that we should at least entertain the possibility that our creator (if we have one) need not be a supernatural omnipotent entity. Would it not strongly suggest the possibility that any such creator is just a highly technologically advanced civilisation?
A chicken and egg scenario still exists
Yes somewhere down the line there has to be a first something. I am just suggesting the possibility, given Aqobots OP suggestion, that we need not necessarily be it.
As for the first: Well if any of our quantum understanding is "true" at all then it suggests that a state of true nothingness in nature may well be unstable. Who knows?
Man has always wanted to be God, to make the rules for the rest of life, whether they live or die. And then there are those with delusions of grandeur who think of themselves and human ingenuity as the pinnacle of greatness.
One day it's all gonna come crashing in around them. And that is when humanity will remember how frail it really is.
I don't see things like the LHC as "playing God". If anything I see such human endevours as our best hope of overcoming our frail limitations to surviive against the overwhelming indifference of nature.
As long as we are tied to this rock we call Earth we are susceptible as a species to extinction via any number of natural means. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but eventually. That is almost inevitable.
I see the LHC and projects like it as potentially the first tentative steps along the road that may save us as a species from that otherwise inevitable fate.
Invariably, man leans towards the Judeo-Christian conception of God. They don't mention the pantheon because they are not threatened by it. They mention "God" because he threatens them
I really don't feel threatened by God. I do however occasionally feel threatened by those who believe in him a little too zealously.
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