Far out cosmology (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, February 03, 2014, 15:28 (3734 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Specifically, if the Big Bang took place, I cannot for the life of me see how it could not have had a cause, and the sequence of cause and effect demands an onward movement from before to after, or from past to present. That is a temporal concept, and cause and effect are palpably existent, and are neither non-directional nor indeterminate. The alternative to an endless sequence of past causes and effects is a beginning without a cause and preceded by absolute nothingness. If you can believe that, you can believe anything.-Here, here! right on point. Leibniz asked: why is there anything? Most of us believe one cannot get something from true nothingness, excluding the non-thinkers who use spacetime with its quantum potentiality characteristic as if it is nothing! A first cause has had to always exist, and whatever it is, it must be energy, becasue only something which has the quality of energy can create a univerese made up solely of energy in whatever forms it then takes. Matter is transformed energy and visa-versa. Ask Albert. George, a response?