https://pdxyogini.com/2009/02/23/no-such-thing-as-nothing/ Reflections from the deep end of Practice. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 https://pdxyogini.com/2009/02/23/no-such-thing-as-nothing/#comment-171 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:32:00 +0000 http://pdxyogini.com/2009/02/23/no-such-thing-as-nothing/#comment-171 I recently came to a similar conclusion, which is really a beginning (pardon the cliche). It led me, perhaps naively, to this summation of thought:There is no such thing as nothingtherefore nothing is falseThe opposite of false is trueThe opposite of nothing is everything (all)Therefore everything is true.My logic teacher in college taught me that you can prove anything from a contradiction. Perhaps Dogen percieved that we were all navigating a dense fog of infinite causality?

]]> https://pdxyogini.com/2009/02/23/no-such-thing-as-nothing/#comment-165 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:50:00 +0000 http://pdxyogini.com/2009/02/23/no-such-thing-as-nothing/#comment-165 Matter is energy and energy matter. The background energy is teaming with the creation and annihilation of antiparticles, creating ‘pressure’ in space. This makes surfaces ‘sticky’ because when things get a few molecules apart this effect is reduced, and thus between surfaces it is a ‘low pressure’ zone. The forces of pressure on the rest of the objects pushes the surfaces together. This makes nanotechnology harder to do the smaller you make things, since all the machinery tends to stick together. Interesting stuff!

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