Post by Alan McDougall on Jun 23, 2015 10:57:38 GMT -5
Why is there Something and not nothing?
The first, most basic idea of that nothing is just empty space with nothing in it not to be nothing. in our universe, even a dark, empty void of space, absent of all particles, is still something
Is that really nothing?" no space, no time. but what about physical laws, what about mathematical entities?
Imagine the surface of a ball. it's a finite space but with no boundary Then imagine it shrinking down to a point." that would create a closed space-time with zero radius.
With nothing, I mean the un-existence of everything. No people, no earth, no milky way, no universe, no laws of nature, no space, no time a total non-existence of everything. A mind-boggling, brain-, brain-numbing and brain- twisting overwhelming concept, terrifying, frightening, too awful to contemplate and impossible think about, without going insane and totally beyond understanding of any human genius.
Making a mathematical model of nothing is actually easy. (Take an empty set, with no operations on it, and nothing else.) Nevertheless, one thing we can be sure of: this nothing is not correct: we do not have “nothing”, but definite and absolutely do indeed have ‘something’.
If you ponder contemplate too long about nothingness, you could go insane, because in my opinion it is concept beyond human comprehension
What about consciousness? all the things that are non-spatial and non-temporal."
Was this something always there? We can trace the history of the universe back to the first instant after the big bang, when the cosmos was unimaginably hot and dense and expanding rapidly. but here the laws of physics break down, and with them our ability to reconstruct what came before Indeed, if its even proper to speak of a “before.” this space of the universe (though it is certainly misleading to call it a “space”)
Is the second kind of nothing the complete lack of space and time and quantum fields. the absence not just of matter and energy, but of the conditions necessary for being.?
Many physicists search for the most elementary laws of physics, and believe that a law is more likely to be true, when it is simpler, more elementary. Some think that at some moment, humans will understand how the Universe and everything works, and, even more, that we find out why the Universe is necessarily as it is. I cannot believe that, indeed, I believe humans cannot ever give a satisfactory or final answer to this ultimate of all questions. Why is there something instead of nothing?
This shows that the simplest model is not always the correct one. The universe is almost infinitely complex and to me this points to the simple logic that it is the creation by an infinite, intelligent by earnsale"> power
. Nothing is the very most basic of all concepts and if there were nothing, there would be no creator, of by earnsale"> course.
Some people may argue that the universe was created in the Big Bang ( but whom and what pressed the button of the big bang in the first place, so to speak?) , and that by earnsale"> positive matter and positive energy are actually negated by the simultaneous creation of negative matter and negative energy. However, this doesn't answer the other question, where do matter, energy and laws of physics then come from in the first place?
Does this question have an answer? If something exists because it either was a modification of something or else, something or somebody else created it, then what caused that to exist? It seems that our logic is unable to deal with the question; indeed, I think the question shows there is a limit to our understanding of things by the very best minds of the human race. There are simply mysteries out there that will never ever be solved by mere mortal man.
You see the universe has a Goldie locks condition about it, i.e., it cannot be too hot, or too cold etc, etc, etc, but it has to be just absolutely correct, precise and right or life would not have come into existence and we would not be around to contemplate, debate or dialog on this ultimate enigma. We would not exist. Life hangs on and depends on this knife- edge of harmonies conditions that have to be sustained over countless billions of years, for us to have come into existence and by earnsale"> continue to exist. Makes one think, does it not?
Why do we have a Universe? My answer is that God created the Universe. However, then, one can ask, who/what created God? I believe God was not created and this ‘fact’ is beyond our understanding and must be accepted on faith. God is far and beyond our understanding, everlasting, without beginning or end, eternal and ever -existing, but was (and is, and will be) always existed.
He is indeed the very by earnsale"> author of all existence. Indeed, God is so mighty, Omni-All that he/she exists, forever, far above our reasoning and above the ultimate reaches of our logic. Something we and all the vain puffed up scientist, philosophers, etc, will just have to accept in time,
We will, at the end of the day have to, relent and acknowledge that somewhere out there is a awesome, colossal, mighty, great infinite intelligence that in comparison that we are as a microbe is to a human or perhaps horrors even much further remote, from the Omni-all power we call God. It will indeed be a most humbling experience for us to finally realize and acknowledge, that there are things and mysteries that will; remain forever, absolutely, totally beyond human comprehension understand and reside eternally in the mind of our creator God.
It is a fact the finite can simply never ever comprehend the mind of the infinite; this should be logic to any fool.
God Exists and inescapable fact of logic
By Alan McDougall 11/6/2007
The first, most basic idea of that nothing is just empty space with nothing in it not to be nothing. in our universe, even a dark, empty void of space, absent of all particles, is still something
Is that really nothing?" no space, no time. but what about physical laws, what about mathematical entities?
Imagine the surface of a ball. it's a finite space but with no boundary Then imagine it shrinking down to a point." that would create a closed space-time with zero radius.
With nothing, I mean the un-existence of everything. No people, no earth, no milky way, no universe, no laws of nature, no space, no time a total non-existence of everything. A mind-boggling, brain-, brain-numbing and brain- twisting overwhelming concept, terrifying, frightening, too awful to contemplate and impossible think about, without going insane and totally beyond understanding of any human genius.
Making a mathematical model of nothing is actually easy. (Take an empty set, with no operations on it, and nothing else.) Nevertheless, one thing we can be sure of: this nothing is not correct: we do not have “nothing”, but definite and absolutely do indeed have ‘something’.
If you ponder contemplate too long about nothingness, you could go insane, because in my opinion it is concept beyond human comprehension
What about consciousness? all the things that are non-spatial and non-temporal."
Was this something always there? We can trace the history of the universe back to the first instant after the big bang, when the cosmos was unimaginably hot and dense and expanding rapidly. but here the laws of physics break down, and with them our ability to reconstruct what came before Indeed, if its even proper to speak of a “before.” this space of the universe (though it is certainly misleading to call it a “space”)
Is the second kind of nothing the complete lack of space and time and quantum fields. the absence not just of matter and energy, but of the conditions necessary for being.?
Many physicists search for the most elementary laws of physics, and believe that a law is more likely to be true, when it is simpler, more elementary. Some think that at some moment, humans will understand how the Universe and everything works, and, even more, that we find out why the Universe is necessarily as it is. I cannot believe that, indeed, I believe humans cannot ever give a satisfactory or final answer to this ultimate of all questions. Why is there something instead of nothing?
This shows that the simplest model is not always the correct one. The universe is almost infinitely complex and to me this points to the simple logic that it is the creation by an infinite, intelligent by earnsale"> power
. Nothing is the very most basic of all concepts and if there were nothing, there would be no creator, of by earnsale"> course.Some people may argue that the universe was created in the Big Bang ( but whom and what pressed the button of the big bang in the first place, so to speak?) , and that by earnsale"> positive
matter and positive energy are actually negated by the simultaneous creation of negative matter and negative energy. However, this doesn't answer the other question, where do matter, energy and laws of physics then come from in the first place?Does this question have an answer? If something exists because it either was a modification of something or else, something or somebody else created it, then what caused that to exist? It seems that our logic is unable to deal with the question; indeed, I think the question shows there is a limit to our understanding of things by the very best minds of the human race. There are simply mysteries out there that will never ever be solved by mere mortal man.
You see the universe has a Goldie locks condition about it, i.e., it cannot be too hot, or too cold etc, etc, etc, but it has to be just absolutely correct, precise and right or life would not have come into existence and we would not be around to contemplate, debate or dialog on this ultimate enigma. We would not exist. Life hangs on and depends on this knife- edge of harmonies conditions that have to be sustained over countless billions of years, for us to have come into existence and by earnsale"> continue
to exist. Makes one think, does it not?Why do we have a Universe? My answer is that God created the Universe. However, then, one can ask, who/what created God? I believe God was not created and this ‘fact’ is beyond our understanding and must be accepted on faith. God is far and beyond our understanding, everlasting, without beginning or end, eternal and ever -existing, but was (and is, and will be) always existed.
He is indeed the very by earnsale"> author
of all existence. Indeed, God is so mighty, Omni-All that he/she exists, forever, far above our reasoning and above the ultimate reaches of our logic. Something we and all the vain puffed up scientist, philosophers, etc, will just have to accept in time, We will, at the end of the day have to, relent and acknowledge that somewhere out there is a awesome, colossal, mighty, great infinite intelligence that in comparison that we are as a microbe is to a human or perhaps horrors even much further remote, from the Omni-all power we call God. It will indeed be a most humbling experience for us to finally realize and acknowledge, that there are things and mysteries that will; remain forever, absolutely, totally beyond human comprehension understand and reside eternally in the mind of our creator God.
It is a fact the finite can simply never ever comprehend the mind of the infinite; this should be logic to any fool.
God Exists and inescapable fact of logic
By Alan McDougall 11/6/2007
