What was there before there was something, for the something to appear in?
Nothing, with a smattering of possibility of something.
Of course, this suggests that possibility itself is a fundamental part of reality separate from matter, space, or time.
Or at least it was in some other universe.
I find the concept of eternal inflation to be as likely, or possibly happening alongside.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqjsZEZMR7I
If you have a spare hour to listen to people talking about it
There is another idea which I am not sure is being considered, which is that inflation is just how it looks inside a black hole.
The idea of being in a black hole inside a universe eternally inflating which in turn is inside another black hole etc etc etc is a real head asplode moment for me.
At that point, my brain says "Just give up and be a Buddhist"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 17:14,
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This is always what does my nut in
Nothing or something has always been there for us to be here
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 5 Aug 2020, 20:40,
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Of course
if you let go of the concept that one thing has to happen after another and that time flows in a particular direction and has only a single dimension then it is possible that there is no 'before' or 'after', they are just an illusion caused by our motion through time and so as soon as a thing exists, it is possible for it to have always existed.
check out at 3:49 for an explanation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2azFOX9P0fc
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 13:56,
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Cheers
I think I am getting there in stopping my tummy from flipping the more I think about it. I guess we are just hard wired to time and a beginning/end as that's what we experience.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 6 Aug 2020, 13:59,
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