imagine this: what if there was no universe?
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just like sleeping. Sleeping with no dreams.
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Latest scientific research suggests that the universe has no beginning or end, both spatially and temporally.  Thus, there was never a creation.
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Qunatum uncertainty says that you can never be certain that space is empty at Planck distances, therefore on those scales there is always some matter-energy in the form of virtual photon / antiphoton pairs that suddenly come into existence and then annilihate one another.  This suggests to me that empty space cannot exist on its own unless there is something in it.  Ultimately, we can spin whatever theories we want and debate forever which ones we prefer - but unless someone can design practical experimental methods, then the arm chair physics will not resolve very much.
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No matter how many 'experts' around here claim that there are alternate universes or other dimensions or a brick wall, nobody--repeat NOBODY--really knows. Tons of theories, but not one single shred of evidence to support any of them.\n\nScientific research has repeatedly indicated that our universe is infinite in scope, and that it will expand forever although its contents (mass and energy) will very, very gradually fade away to nothing.\n\nBefore our universe began, and right now, there's probably nothing else but an absolute and infinite void totally without energy, mass, spacetime, dimensions or anything else.
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Well, think this, the universe is infinite. Wouldn't be kind of ridiculous to think we are the only smart ones around in such an endless space?
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this is actually a common misconception about the big bang.  the universe may be something like the two dimensional surface of a sphere.  it is finite yet has no boundary and no center.  nothing exists "outside" the universe.  to quote a dead writer, "there is no there, there".\n\nread this:\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147
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Maybe it was god. maybe it was the big bang, maybe god created the universe through the big bang...I dont know...but I just want to 'think - out - loud' in this forum....maybe the Universe alwasy existed? No beginning? no end? Because we experience life and death in every cycle on Earth doesnt mean the Universe is also controlled in the same manner. *sigh* I wish I knew it all :)
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Yes.\n\nSome one had to actively create the universe, because a system left on its own would become more chaotic and that's not the case since we have evolution which is creating more order out of things.
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the whole idea that there was nothing and now theres something?\n\nwhy?
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There's an interesting question.  Perhaps from the ultimate collapse of the previous universe.
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Parallel universes may exist.  Some cosmological theories encompass this possibility.  At the moment (and possibly always) there can be no verification by observation whether they  exist or not.  The question is, and may always be, an open question, without any definitive answer.
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This sort of thinking should be based on observation. You can come up with any theory you like, but if it does not explain what is seen it is useless.\n\nOn this basis:\n\n1. the universe (and implcitly nature) had a beginning, about 13.7 billion years ago\n2. that beginning did not require a creator (though you may choose to believe in one - you just won't find him experimentally)
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if we say its size is limited . then what will be beyond the universe . and if we say its size is unlimited . then how can we explain this . the space and the time are very difficult to understand . that is why some says that the only thing real is GOD . the whole other things are only an imagined thing created by GOD . like a dream . but you must know that even the dreams have some being of some kind . if a dream is not exist . then how can we see it .
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None actually, but having no proof on the other side, by grace of the Occam´s razor I would choose the simplest hypothesis: no god.
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There's the "Theory of Nothing".
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Mathematetically, philosophically, nothing. That has been the big question since Einstein theorized that the universe had a beginning. The question moves from the realm of science, a process of theory and discovery, to revelation, a process of information delivery. In short because nothing (not mathematic formulas, time, energy, literally anything) existed the only way for us to know what happened prior to the Big Bang is by devine revelation. Science has struggled with this idea for a long time and many theories have been proposed but all theories proposed require a moment when nothing existed and then suddenly there is existence. This is the principle behind the Cosmological Argument. Briefly since everything that exists has a cause, the universe exists, it must logically have a cause. I would encourage you to read, 'When Skeptics Ask', by Norman Geisler or 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist', by Geisler and Turk. Good luck on your search.
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Nothing is nothing. Energy is something.\n\nIf there is nothing in a universe then is it even a universe?  No, it is not, it's nothing.