Rob Sheldon notes the tendency of some new atheists to try to cook up a storm about “nothing” (tendency – to argue that there really is an absolutely free lunch – debunked here.). But meanwhile, Rob:
… a hundred years ago space was not nothing, it was full of aether. And two hundred years before that, it was full of Descarte’s vortices. And a hundred years before that it was full of the glory of God. And a couple hundred years before that, it was full of Democritus’ atoms (because Nature abhors a vacuum). I would venture a guess that it has been “something” far longer than it has been “nothing” just as atheism is, chronologically speaking, a mere flash in the pan of solid theism.
as to:
Regardless of what atheists may think is politically expedient, scientifically, to think of the heavens at any given moment in time, the heavens are now, and have always been, “full of the glory of God!”
It is interesting to point out how powerful ‘vacuum energy’ is:
Supporting evidence for “vacuum energy”:
Related note, the necessity of virtual particles is mentioned here:
Of related note:
All of which adds credence to this:
Also of related note, The following physicist shows that allowing a conscious observer to be given an ontologically complete role in Quantum Mechanics eliminates ‘bizarre speculations’:
of related note: Besides the gargantuan 1 in 10^10^123 noted by Penrose for the initial entropy of the universe, the fine-tuning of dark energy exceeds all other universal constants in precision of its fine-tuning:
Here are the verses in the Bible, which were written over 2000 years before the discovery of the finely tuned expansion of the universe by ‘Dark Energy’, that speak of God ‘Stretching out the Heavens’; Job 9:8; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 40:24; Isaiah 48:13; Zechariah 12:1; Psalm 104:2; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 45:12; Isaiah 51:13; Jeremiah 51:15; Jeremiah 10:12. The following verse is one of my favorites out of the group of verses:
Related notes:
In what I consider an absolutely fascinating discovery, 4-dimensional (4D) space-time was created in the Big Bang and continues to ‘expand equally in all places’:
Thus from a 3-dimensional (3D) perspective, any particular 3D spot in the universe is to be considered just as ‘center of the universe’ as any other particular spot in the universe is to be considered ‘center of the universe’. This centrality found for any 3D place in the universe is because the universe is a 4D expanding hypersphere, analogous in 3D to the surface of an expanding balloon. All points on the surface are moving away from each other, and every point is central, if that’s where you live.
It is also interesting to note that ‘higher dimensional’ mathematics had to be developed before Einstein could elucidate the 4D space-time of General Relativity, or even before Quantum Mechanics could be elucidated;
Even special relativity points to a ‘higher dimension’ above this one:
Music and verse: