First:
reply to post by Mumbotron
LoL
Classic!!
Now to the OP and the subject at hand!!
reply to post by Maddogkull
Sir, I completely understand your dilemma. I have been struggling with this concept for ages.
I have a few notions on providing a valid concept of "nothing". However I should tell you upfront that I usually, in all cases, end up back at
square one.
If you're interested, allow me to show you where I am at in trying to conceptualize this...
Please do this for me, look at the palm of your hands for a second, now look around the room you're in. Look around at all of the "stuff" in that
room.
Okay now, visualize the house (apt/flat/loft/cardboard box whatever) where you live, the city, state (if applicable), country you live in, our Earth
we live on, which is a speck in our solar system, which is a speck in our Milky Way Galaxy, which is a speck in our Universe.
Okay let us stop there and we'll assume that there are no other levels past our Universe.
Okay now look at the palms of your hands again.
At one point the palms of those hands (more so the person connected to them) were at one point "non-existent", alternatively "not" and therefore
"nothing" not even a speck.
The same applies to everything after the palms of your hands.
So here is where I start to get perplexed. It is all clear and quite logical to me up until the point where I reach our Universe. At one point
everything, was "nothing" or "non-existent". So this raises the question how did allllll of this "something" come from, at what one point, had
to be "nothing"?
So this got me pondering, look at your hands again and ask yourself this...
How did these hands, that were once "nothing", become something?
It took two other sets of hands to make your hands exist, or become "something". More or less, it took an "action" from your parents, to create
the "reaction" which was you.
Now again, apply the varied actions and reactions to everything on your list after the palms of your hands and the "nothing" they once were is for
the most part conceptualized by the an "action" creates a "reaction" basic Newtonian stuff.
So on that notion our Universe would have needed an "action" to create the current "reaction" a.k.a. existence. Cue "Big Bang" vs. "Divine
Creation" debate. I'm not going there!!
Personally, I always end up faced with the same mind bending question.
In my opinion (which are based on the aforementioned thoughts, ideas, and opinions) there had to be "nothing" in the beginning!
How does a Universe full of all this "something" come from "nothing"??
