Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Light from nothing, stupidity from something

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-11-22]: Scientists managed to show with an elaborate experiment that photons can be created from nothing (via quantum fluctuations in the void) [source: web news]. However everything is a matter of definition and the creation of something from “nothing” could simply prove one thing: that the “nothing” was something more than “nothing” after all…

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