Originally Posted By: fredk
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I just can't imagine there ever being NOTHING

But there was never nothing. It started out with a singularity.


That was the funny ending of the NOVA show on the M-Theory. After decades trying to solve the singularity problem, they solve it with the "understanding" big bangs happen all the time and we are just living in the results of one of them. The funny part was that when they 'solved' the big bang problem it just opened up a whole new mystery about the world that existed on the other side of the bang and what else is out there from prior and later bangs.

It reminded me of Einstein's belief that God is not a tinkerer but a master watch builder who designs and implements the machine and only gets involved when he wants. Here, it was as if the watchmaker watched a child try to open the watch case for a 1,000 years and then laughed as they opened the chronograph and realized it would be another million years before they could grasped how all the gears and springs worked.

Even the smartest of we brilliant humans need to be humbled every now and then.

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