I Like Philosophy
Either nothing came from nothing, or something came from something else...
Given the fact we know we already exist, we're left with little to no choice but to assume that the universe at least came from... something. What it was exactly is anyone's guess. We know it wasn't nothing though, because we're already here. And if nothing - true absolute nothing - was the original state of everything prior to the creation and existence of space and time, then it would simply continue being nothing ad infinitum. 0+0=0. That's just the most logical deduction one could make. But, if nothing can spontaneously produce something then that original nothingness was not nothing at all, but in fact a something.
It's hard - if not impossible - to imagine a universe in its formative years, especially when conscious beings weren't even on the scene yet. This of course begs the obvious question; How does a universe exist in spite of our perception of it, when perception itself is the very means in which reality becomes manifest?
Given the fact we know we already exist, we're left with little to no choice but to assume that the universe at least came from... something. What it was exactly is anyone's guess. We know it wasn't nothing though, because we're already here. And if nothing - true absolute nothing - was the original state of everything prior to the creation and existence of space and time, then it would simply continue being nothing ad infinitum. 0+0=0. That's just the most logical deduction one could make. But, if nothing can spontaneously produce something then that original nothingness was not nothing at all, but in fact a something.
It's hard - if not impossible - to imagine a universe in its formative years, especially when conscious beings weren't even on the scene yet. This of course begs the obvious question; How does a universe exist in spite of our perception of it, when perception itself is the very means in which reality becomes manifest?
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