@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote: Simple
No, it is not that simple - at all, especially in a discussion.
cicerone imposter wrote: I understand English.
On the surface, maybe, but why don't you 'try sailing a little bit behind the navigation buoy'.
cicerone imposter wrote: The title of this forum is "How can something come from nothing?"
O.K. Obviously you have understood something.
cicerone imposter wrote: something: a thing that is unspecified or unknown. "we stopped for something to eat"
This is not exactly the meaning of
something here, but as you say it.
IMV the interpretation of
something is: anything that is being or existing ... under whatever conditions ... or something of the kind.
cicerone imposter wrote: nothing: not anything; no single thing.
Where do you take these definitions from? You cannot use frivolously the everyday interpretations of the words just so, as terms in a discussion.
cicerone imposter wrote: having no prospect of progress; of no value
And how will you interpret the whole phrase: 'How can a 'thing that is unspecified' (something) come from no value (nothing)', or what?
You may continue exercising in 'reading English':
Nothing - Df. Lowest energy state of a theory; quantum vacuum; non-existence of space - zero-D space; the non-existence of the physical world, etc.
Something - Df. Anything that has higher energy state than the lowest possible one; anything that may involve matter and its motion through space in time, incl. energy and force; the physical materialization of the mode of existence, etc.