POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Something from Nothing? : Re: Something from Nothing? Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:12:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Something from Nothing?  
From: Darren New
Date: 27 Jul 2009 18:38:38
Message: <4a6e2c6e$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   It just brings the (maybe a bit philosophical) question: How is it possible
> that everything has always existed?

Why not? Is it possible everything will always exist from here on?

Scientifically, I can see a problem (i.e., there might be scientific 
evidence suggesting there actually was a beginning to "everything"), but 
philosophically?

> It's one of those impassable horizons in the universe.

Well, so far...

> If time didn't "exist" before the Big Bang, then exactly what is it that
> happened?)

That's why I'm wondering if time didn't run asymptotically slower, or 
faster, or something. :-)  It's certainly one way of resolving the 
conundrum, even if it's not scientifically correct.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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