05 Mar '07 10:52>1 edit
Sorry. Couldn't resist. But I had to start yet another thread on the
concept of nothing, as it seems hard for most people around here to
fully grasp. I will start by saying that nothing is the total absence of
anything. No space, no events to measure, no energy, no physical
properties whatsoever. It's nothing.
And nothing is exactly what I believe is beyond the edges of our own
universe. No space to travel in and nothing to sustain your physical
being.
But the universe we know of is constantly expanding. How can that be if
there is no space to expand in beyond the borders of our universe? Two
possibilities: 1) Either this universe is part of a bigger one, possibly
with very different conditions, but still something for our universe to grow
in, or 2) our universe is growing out of it's own accord, creating new
energy, expanding matter and creating something where before there
was nothing.
Either way, the second option must be applicable at some level of
universal physicality. Because you have to ask yourself, if there is always
something (space) beyond the borders of every theoretical kind of
universe you can think of, where does it all end? It's just not a viable
option. The only truly believable version I can think of is that beyond the
borders are nothing. It eliminates the whole question of what is beyond
that then, because nothing is nothing and so it's nothing beyond the
nothing. So simple. The concept of eternal space is eliminated in a flash.
It's a real beauty that theory.
This all gives that there is nothing we can measure using a time index.
Hence, we don't have to ask ourselves what came before our universe.
Since there was nothing there to begin with, nothing came before our
universe and now that question is also perfectly eliminated. One
question remains: How can something arise from nothing? This is the
equivalent question of, if there's a God how was it created? Or, if God is
eternal, how can that be? Something eternal is as ridiculous a notion as
having nothing. Both are impossible to understand fully with our limited
intellects.
I would now suggest that it's even more likely that something came from
nothing, than that there's always been something there. Because the
latter suggests that there was no beginning and there'll be no end, and
that's just silly as it stands in violation of everything humanly
observable. It may be true, but it's highly unlikely from where I stand.
Having something start where there was absolutely nothing originally, is
extremely hard to understand. But if that's what happened, all those
other questions fade to a dim case of lunacy instead of the raving and
incoherent ranting witnessed in some churches to this date.
The only real question to answer is this: "How can something grow out of
nothing?" For now, I take it on faith that it has. Perhaps one day I'm
proven right or wrong, but that doesn't really "matter" much.
concept of nothing, as it seems hard for most people around here to
fully grasp. I will start by saying that nothing is the total absence of
anything. No space, no events to measure, no energy, no physical
properties whatsoever. It's nothing.
And nothing is exactly what I believe is beyond the edges of our own
universe. No space to travel in and nothing to sustain your physical
being.
But the universe we know of is constantly expanding. How can that be if
there is no space to expand in beyond the borders of our universe? Two
possibilities: 1) Either this universe is part of a bigger one, possibly
with very different conditions, but still something for our universe to grow
in, or 2) our universe is growing out of it's own accord, creating new
energy, expanding matter and creating something where before there
was nothing.
Either way, the second option must be applicable at some level of
universal physicality. Because you have to ask yourself, if there is always
something (space) beyond the borders of every theoretical kind of
universe you can think of, where does it all end? It's just not a viable
option. The only truly believable version I can think of is that beyond the
borders are nothing. It eliminates the whole question of what is beyond
that then, because nothing is nothing and so it's nothing beyond the
nothing. So simple. The concept of eternal space is eliminated in a flash.
It's a real beauty that theory.
This all gives that there is nothing we can measure using a time index.
Hence, we don't have to ask ourselves what came before our universe.
Since there was nothing there to begin with, nothing came before our
universe and now that question is also perfectly eliminated. One
question remains: How can something arise from nothing? This is the
equivalent question of, if there's a God how was it created? Or, if God is
eternal, how can that be? Something eternal is as ridiculous a notion as
having nothing. Both are impossible to understand fully with our limited
intellects.
I would now suggest that it's even more likely that something came from
nothing, than that there's always been something there. Because the
latter suggests that there was no beginning and there'll be no end, and
that's just silly as it stands in violation of everything humanly
observable. It may be true, but it's highly unlikely from where I stand.
Having something start where there was absolutely nothing originally, is
extremely hard to understand. But if that's what happened, all those
other questions fade to a dim case of lunacy instead of the raving and
incoherent ranting witnessed in some churches to this date.
The only real question to answer is this: "How can something grow out of
nothing?" For now, I take it on faith that it has. Perhaps one day I'm
proven right or wrong, but that doesn't really "matter" much.