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Quantum Fluctuation… M.S. Mousavi Karimi (201
existence of… a concrete world. It is not clear
object… or concrete event… whether the abstract world
or… quantum vacuum, is the efficient or material,
empty space or time”, creative or transformative
whereas it is entirely cause of the physical
compatible with the world. At any rate, the fact
existence of “the mathematical of the matter is that the
properties of possible Hawking-Hartle model
universes”. (Smith, 1998: 77) never elucidates the energy
indeed accepts that the or the vacuum sources, and
model presupposes the only represents the law of
existence of “certain conservation of matter and
abstract objects, numbers, energy. This model surely
operations, functions, matrices, does not explain the creatio
and other mathematical ex nihilo, but rather merely
entities, that comprise the shows something comes
wave-function equation”. out of something. (Ref:
As it shall be explained Deltete and Guy, 1997;
later, it is obvious that Craig, 1997)
Smith’s interpretation of As Grünbaum (1991: 233)
nothingness is not what rightly points out, “such
philosophers basically mean physicists as Hartle and
by it. Hawking (1983) and
Moreover, Smith does Vilenkin (1983) speak
not explain how his misleadingly of certain
abstract world stands in primordial physical states
relation to the physical as nothing”.
