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brankoB
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Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe...
"Pure nothingness" would be the empty set, not a set with something in it.
Dylan16807
on June 7, 2019
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Yes, that's their point. Pure nothingness, the empty set, has the potential to create the set containing the empty set, and then the set containing that, sets containing combinations, etc etc.
brankoB
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How does the empty set "create" the set containing the empty set?
Dylan16807
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By being the contents that make that set exist.
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