seriosly explaining the universe
let's start with this:it's easy to imagine the possibility of an eternal future,but have you ever reasoned through the notion of an eternal past?What were you doing before you replied to my post?Whatever it was,let's label it an "event".You can define whatever the beginning and end was,of this event.Before that,you were engaged in another "event",and so on.
Obviously,the same reasoning can be applied to your parents' lives before you were born,to their parents',and so on,as far back as human history goes.
Now,when we get back to the beginning of human history,if there was in fact a precise beginning---or,if you like,whatever we were before we were human---still,ostensibly,there were "intelligent beings" of some ilk experiencing events,and that notion can be regressed infinitely.
If you want to bring in the generally accepted scientific notion that intelligent life on Earth began by way of electrical and chemical interactions involving amino acids,etc.(I know I'm not describing the notion with precision),then even though there wasn't "intelligence" to apprehend it,still,"events" were going on---something was going on,along a linear timeline,as best as we can understand it.
Let's go back to the Big Bang.The argument is that some kind of a "point-event" existed---I can't think of the term that is used---which exploded and expanded out an enormous distance in unimaginable heat;then things started to cool and contract,the elements were formed,and so forth(I know I'm leaving out steps).But where did this original "unit" that "banged" come from?Was it sitting there forever?Still,where did it come from?
The best our logic can give us is that wherever there has been an "event",an event just preceded it---otherwise,what was in between the two events?
Going back to the "point-event" that made the Big Bang,if it had been sitting there "forever" rather than originating from a prior event,when did "forever" start?Answer:never.That's the definition of "forever".So we can't talk about a beginning.
The only kind of beginning it makes sense to talk about is the beginning of an event,and in order for that event to take place it had to come out of another event.
In the same way that we can imagine the notion of time extending endlessly into the future,if we posit that "things" have been engaging in "events" eternally(because if they haven't,at some point there would have been "nothing",and by very definition "nothing"---total absence---cannot produce "something",and we wouldn't exist),we solve the problem of beginnings.
I would posit that all of us,and everything that "exists",have "always"(can't comprehend it,but it makes sense)existed,and the nature of existence is that we change forms,experience events,always have and always will---there's much more to this than what I have lain out in far too many words.But Chris,I'm serious,in the effort I've put forth to express this,and also in my desire to find a woman with whom I'd be compatible---after all,this is a dating service.
So,if you're interested in serious discussion,that's fine with me,but if you just want to make wisecracks about Einstein,leave it alone.
