[Moonman62]

Today’s New York Times has an article by Dennis Overbye about Lawrence Krauss and his new book A Universe From Nothing. Much of the book is an excellent discussion of cosmology and the physics of the vacuum, but it also devotes a lot of effort to discussing the meaningless question of “Why is there something rather than nothing?” and arguing against the invocation of a deity in order to answer it.

Funny how Krauss and others will equate the vacuum with "nothing" when they want to claim there is no God, but then claim that the vacuum is "something" when they want to explain the mass of the proton, the mass of empty space, or the flatness of the Universe.

[muawiyah]

The "vacuum" has some experimental results behind it now ~ at the same time it's just one of those postulates.

A more understandable meme would be a CRT ~ at the edge where the phosphors are painted by the electron beam. We're on one side. They are on the other side. The reality is the image.

The screen is grounded.