Or in short, you can have cause-and-effect as a very useful fiction. — tim wood
Now in practicality, this would assume that in order for zero to exist in our world, we would need to exile a substance from reality in order to create null. But according to particle theory, we cannot destroy a substance, only replace/displace its form. — john27
↪john27 I have a forum post here that goes over your subject matter. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12098/a-first-cause-is-logically-necessary — Philosophim
I think it might be better if I restate my point to that because a Primary cause is the cause of all things, it incorporates all things within itself. Therefore a complete eradication of the universe would be necessary to create a zero, which would then by necessity need an equal amount of antimatter to eradicate it completely, but because there is a fewer amount of antimatter(or so it is believed)than conventional matter, It cannot happen. Therefore, 0, in the complete sense cannot exist. — john27
It is a measurement of Entropy. — I like sushi
A question I've asked before (got from a book) is, if you're blowing a tree-stump out of the ground with some dynamite, what exactly "causes" the dynamite to explode? Some folks here who claim expertise on these matters have refused to try to answer. What do you say? — tim wood
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