John Perry (Philosophy Talk) argued that having the uncertainty relations or QM a necessary condition for the Big-Bang sounds like a theology.
For Krauss' thesis on a pedestrian level see: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/radcliffe-magazine/universe-nothing
For the Gettier problem - Knowledge as Justified True Belief (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/#JTB). Quote: "Cases like that- known as Gettier-cases[5], arise because neither the possession of evidence nor origination in reliable faculties is sufficient for ensuring that a belief is not true merely because of luck.".
In particular, does Heisenberg's uncertainty constitute "luck"?
Krauss, frankly, doesn't understand the question 'Why is there anything rather than nothing?' He doesn't get the fact that the things we're talking about include the laws of physics themselves.
Entire universe is made up of energy in motion. Human senses can detect these energies because they interact with the materials of human senses (or instruments) and because of their motion. The origin of these energies in motion is from the perfectly motionless fundamental substance which can be vaguely described as pure consciousness or pure spirit. Both these attributes of the fundamental substance of the universe make it impossible for human senses to detect it. Therefore the fundamental substance of the universe appear to the human senses and instruments as empty space. The universe arises from the all pervasive motionless spirit. Universe is made up of descrete quanta of spirit in motion which we call energy. You will never find energy that is not in motion. No exceptions. It will be easier to detect the soul of a dead man than to detect this all pervasive spirit.
No doubt! Good thing that the "pure spirit" is unmeasurable it keeps it separated from proper science!
@ Asher, It can never be detected but it can certainly be experienced. -- Because it pervades everything in the universe like empty space, it also exists behind every human mind as its support. Its presence makes the human mind conscious and its absence will make it unconscious. It is motionless like the overhead power supply cable on a railroad which moves huge locomotives of various size and shape at different speeds. It requires an extraordinary research effort to search for one's own Self. Therefore solution of Krauss problem lies in spiritual science, not in material science. Read the book "Autobiography of a Yogi" to learn how a Yogi can see what Krauss cannot see.
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