{"id":748,"date":"2013-03-26T08:02:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=748"},"modified":"2013-03-26T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:02:06","slug":"i-got-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/i-got-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"I got nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil DeGrasse Tyson leads a discussion about the meaning and\/or existence of nothing here. The discussion is about science more than philosophy but they also tackled the linguistics in some depth, which any Daoist would appreciate. The panelists were:<\/p>\n

J. Richard Gott, professor of astrophysical sciences, Princeton University, and author of Sizing Up the Universe: The Cosmos in Perspective<\/p>\n

Jim Holt, science journalist and author of Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story<\/p>\n

Lawrence Krauss, professor of physics, Arizona State University and author of A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing<\/p>\n

Charles Seife, professor of journalism, New York University, and author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea<\/p>\n

Eve Silverstein, professor of physics, Stanford University, and co-editor of Strings, Branes and Gravity.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Tyson disinvited physicist\/philosopher David Alpert<\/a>, after Alpert wrote a harsh review of Professor Krauss’ book. Given that this was billed as a debate, that seems like a pretty inappropriate reason, which reflects badly on Tyson and especially Krauss.<\/p>\n

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