Nothing comes from nothing
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| - | + | '''Nothing comes from nothing''' ({{lang-la|[[ex nihilo]] nihil fit}}) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by [[Parmenides]]. It is associated with [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[cosmology]], such as is presented not just in the opus of [[Homer]] and [[Hesiod]], but also in virtually every internal system – there is no break in between a world didn't exist, since it couldn't be created ''ex nihilo'' in the first place. Note that Greeks also believed that things cannot disappear into nothing, just as they can't be created from nothing, but if they ceased to exist, they transform into some other form of being. We can trace this idea to the teaching of [[Empedocles]]. Today the idea is loosely associated with the laws of [[conservation of mass]] and [[Conservation of energy|energy]]. | |
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| - | * [[James Ussher|Archbishop Ussher]], whose [[Ussher chronology]] calculated a time for a Genesis ''creatio ex nihilo'' | + | * [[Antimetabole]] |
| - | * [[Big Bang]] | + | * [[Empedocles]] |
| - | * [[Emergence]] | + | * [[Ex nihilo]] |
| - | * [[Ex nihilo nihil fit]] | + | * [[Principle of sufficient reason]] |
| - | * [[Frederick Hart (sculptor)#Washington_National_Cathedral|"Ex Nihilo", sculpture by Frederick Hart]] | + | * [[Spontaneous symmetry breaking]] |
| - | * [[Infinite regression]] | + | * [[Vacuum energy]] |
| - | * [[M-theory]] | + | |
| - | * [[Natural theology]] | + | |
| - | * [[Nihilism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Emunoth_ve-Deoth#i_The_creation_of_the_world|Rabbinical creation story]] | + | |
| - | * [[Turtles all the way down]] | + | |
| - | * [[Quantitative easing]] | + | |
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Nothing comes from nothing (Template:Lang-la) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides. It is associated with ancient Greek cosmology, such as is presented not just in the opus of Homer and Hesiod, but also in virtually every internal system – there is no break in between a world didn't exist, since it couldn't be created ex nihilo in the first place. Note that Greeks also believed that things cannot disappear into nothing, just as they can't be created from nothing, but if they ceased to exist, they transform into some other form of being. We can trace this idea to the teaching of Empedocles. Today the idea is loosely associated with the laws of conservation of mass and energy.
See also
- Antimetabole
- Empedocles
- Ex nihilo
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking
- Vacuum energy
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