{"id":2485,"date":"2009-08-14T18:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2009-08-14T18:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:18:21","slug":"there-aint-no-nothin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/there-aint-no-nothin\/","title":{"rendered":"There Ain&#8217;t No Nothin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg\">This is very striking<\/a>.  It is a curious thing that we find ourself saying similar things about the material world at both its largest and its smallest scales.  The thing we find ourself saying here is: &#8220;There is no such thing as Nothing.&#8221;  At the very smallest sub-microscopic scales. what used to be thought of as empty space (all right, spacetime) turns out to be a &#8220;quantum foam,&#8221; with particles fizzing in and out of existence.  At the very largest scales, as this video clip illustrates, what looks like an empty patch of sky is chock-full of remote galaxies when stared at hard enough.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard Heather say that she has never been afflicted with any musings about the significance of human consciousness, or the place of humanity in the universe.  (I hope I am not misquoting her.)  I can&#8217;t say the same.  Images like this fill me with wonder, with something quite close to terror, and with something considerably closer to despair.  <\/p>\n<p>They also of course make the notion of a loving god with a particular interest in humanity, seem pretty darn ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very striking. It is a curious thing that we find ourself saying similar things about the material world at both its largest and its smallest scales. The thing we find ourself saying here is: &#8220;There is no such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/there-aint-no-nothin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}