Before the Big Bang? (Origins)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 31, 2014, 23:01 (3767 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Thank you for your honesty. ...It's clear from the Strassler article that there is no clear definition of matter, and many of the terms he deals with actually refer to things nobody knows much if anything about. But he does emphasize that energy and matter are totally different,-At least some clarification. I follow Strassler the best that I can, since the ideas in the standard model are changing so much. First cause has to energy, pure or with some degree of formation into matter. we can go no further.- 
> DAVID: Your questions are helping me clarify my own thinking.[/i]
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> dhw: That is a great compliment, but in all honesty I see nothing other than confusion in all these discussions ... Unfortunately, the very fact of naming something endows it with some kind of reality, as though it were known, even if it is not. Perhaps the word “God” is a prime example. It's muddled enough to turn any truth-seeker into an agnostic, wouldn't you say?-Just the opposite. If God is a mystery, the quantum layer, his hiding-place, makes Him quite logical.