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Article #1103Re: A virtue of Vacuum Genesis
From: Frank Adams
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1987 02:11
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1987 02:11
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In article <22236@sun.uucp> rdh@sun.UUCP (Robert Hartman) writes: >In an ultimate sense, I doubt that any cosmological explanation can avoid >infinite regress. And so, I can either accept them all as equally plausible, >or reject them all as equally meaningless. -bob. Well, there is the alternative of saying "that's all there is, there is no explanation for this, it's just there" at some point. This leaves you in much the same state you started in, of course. There is also the possibility of a *potentially* infinite regress. At each step, you can find a deeper explanation; but there is no way to tie it all up in ball and generalize (you can't say: "each level is based on the preceding level in the following way: ..."). This possiblity is called job security for cosmologists. It seems more likely to me than some more fully explicatable regress. -- Frank Adams ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Ashton-Tate 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!ctnews!pyramid!prls!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: A virtue of Vacuum Genesis Message-ID: <2240@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 22:11:40 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.2240 Posted: Wed Jul 1 22:11:40 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 13:23:52 EDT References: <4080@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <8706261209.AA04305@brahms.Berkeley.EDU> <22236@sun.uucp> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT. Lines: 19