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Unknown User!
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Originally Posted by Unknown User
Common sense tells us that the universe either had a beginning or it always existed.
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What if 'common sense' is totally wrong? After all, the quantum world is full of very, very non-common sense things, isn't it? Nevertheless, thousands of experiments strongly suggest that 'common sense' is wrong (and quantum theory is right).
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There can only be two possibilities.
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Why?
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I think both possibilities are impossible because they seem to create a paradox. It seems impossible for the universe to have a beginning because to have a beginning something has to pop into existance out of absolute nothing. That is impossible.
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Why? Because you think it's impossible?
I think quantum tunnelling is impossible; I think that entangled states are impossible; ... however, good experimental results seem to say that what I think is wrong. Maybe your idea of impossibility is wrong too?
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The universe can not have a beginning because matter and energy can not pop into existance out of absolute nothing and by nothing I don't mean the empty vaccuum of space.
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Why not? Why does the universe have to obey Unknown User's preconceptions of how it should (and should not) work?
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Absolute nothing means there is absolutely nothing, not even empty space void of matter and energy where a universe could be created.
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But isn't this philosophy? What does it have to do with the universe?
I think I'll stop here ... it seems to me that you have built far, far too many of your own, personal demands of the universe (which is under no obligation to conform to your common sense).