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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Leibniz was a major critic of Newton's concept of absolute space and time. He was a physical relativist before Einstein showed the math.
    Paradoxically, Leibniz had no concept of randomness in physics. Yet that concept can be applied to physical interactions since nothing actually affects anything else.

    Leibniz believed nothingness was a real possibility. He thought God chose a world because it is better to exist than not exist. But there is no necessity in there being a world.

    For me, randomness means that just because things happened a certain way does not mean they had to occur that way, or at all. There is nothing necessary about life on our planet and occurred randomly. The sequence of events were randomly connected.
    Newton's First Law of Motion. Things in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an external force. In the asteroid example, the randomness was at the Big Bang. After that it's like billiard balls bouncing around until they run into something.

    At the moment, if scientists spotted a 6 mile wide asteroid headed directly for us, there's very little we could do with the information.

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/pla...rs-experts-say
    Will we ever get a solid answer on what killed the dinosaurs? According to a new "K-T Boundary Dream Team" comprising of 41 international experts, including geophysicists and paleontologists, yes, the question has been settled: An asteroid is indeed to blame. For years, scientists have argued over different theories of what killed the dinos--including one hypothesis that has gained ground recently, which suggests that massive volcanic activity in India's Deccan Traps wiped them out 65 million years ago. However, the latest expert panel stuck to the asteroid theory, saying a massive impact wiped out the dinos and more than half of the Earth's other species. The panel's review was published in the journal Science. After studying all the available data on the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction, the panel concluded that the catastrophic event was caused by a 6-mile-wide asteroid that struck Earth at an angle of 90 degrees and a speed of about 12.4 miles per second – about 20 times faster than a speeding bullet [Guardian]. The asteroid hit Chicxulub, Mexico, with a force one billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima [Science Daily News].

    The impact of the crash would have triggered large scale fires, landslides, earthquakes that measured 10 on the Richter scale, and subsequent tsunamis, scientists said. Debris loosened by the impact would have shrouded the planet, clouding the skies, causing a global darkness, and "killing off many species that couldn't adapt to this hellish environment" according to study coauthor Joanna Morgan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    After that it's like billiard balls bouncing around until they run into something
    That has never been proven. In fact, it has been disproven. Relativity shows that there is no table (frame of reference) on which all things occur.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    That has never been proven. In fact, it has been disproven. Relativity shows that there is no table (frame of reference) on which all things occur.
    Okay. Let's say you're correct. What does that mean?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    Okay. Let's say you're correct. What does that mean?
    Already said it. The deterministic world of science is false.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Already said it. The deterministic world of science is false.
    Which means????? Why should I care what you call it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    Which means????? Why should I care what you call it?
    I am not trying to convince you of anything. Just explaining what physicists mean by randomness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I am not trying to convince you of anything. Just explaining what physicists mean by randomness.
    I'm not asking for convincing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Nothingness is not just the absence of things in space. Where is space?
    That's incorrect. I'm not a physicist, but I've read my share of physics books written for the intelligent layman and I know that the common perception of "nothingness" isn't the same as nothing in physics. Even a total vacuum is full of activity at the quantum level.

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    Quote Originally Posted by American Man View Post
    That's incorrect. I'm not a physicist, but I've read my share of physics books written for the intelligent layman and I know that the common perception of "nothingness" isn't the same as nothing in physics. Even a total vacuum is full of activity at the quantum level.
    Vacuum is not the issue. You clearly don't comprehend

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    Answer to Sean Michael Carroll's question, Why is there something rather than nothing?

    It's impossible to know at this point, Dr. Carroll, but one thing we know for sure.

    Whatever force of nature or fate caused that to happen made the most horrific mistake of all time.
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