"The only thing
Twy-Sunrats
16-04-2004, 10:06
as contradictory as the idea that everything came from nothing is the notion that something has always existed..."
Discuss
A few Immediate Thoughts, being, the existence of nothing is a paradox, if nothing exists it is not nothing and hence cannot exist...
Everything has a begining, there must logically be a point where there was nothing however how can nothing become something?
Laws of reality have only existed as long as the physical universe, before the begining of this phase of existence our physical laws may not have existed...
*shrugs* anyway an interesting discussion... and one which no one can know if there right or not... haha ;c)
imported_Jet Li
16-04-2004, 10:08
Good god man! It's Friday!
Today is the time to reward your brain with alcohol...not punish it with philosophy!
Earth II
16-04-2004, 10:17
Always when I try to think about what may be behind the frontiers of the universe or had been before the Big Bang I get haedaches. But it's one of the most interesting themes to think about so I'll have to buy some aspirin.
Nothing is but what is not?
Macbeth
There is nothing beyond the frontiers of the universe. The universe has no frontiers. There is no edge of space, you cannot travel beyond the universe, because the universe expands as the objects within it expand.
The basis of the universe is likely not matter. It is, instead, likely energy (which congeals into a form we know as matter).
At least, that's what I understand. If there are any physicists out there who'd like to correct me, please do.
With that said, before the Big Bang, the universe existed as a potential occurance contained within an infinitesimally small speck of energy, which would soon explode into the universe as we know it.
What happened before then? Who can say?
I have always existed. the universe that I get to experience, is always changeing. I will, and the universe that I percieve, will always be there.
Untill I am no longer able to percieve it.
Jim
imported_1248B
16-04-2004, 10:47
reward your brain with alcohol
Now that is a seriously funny contradiction :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thanks for the laughs! :lol:
Good god man! It's Friday!
Today is the time to reward your brain with alcohol...not punish it with philosophy!
Punish a mind with philosophy? Think Man!!
:lol:
Jim
imported_Jet Li
16-04-2004, 10:55
Good god man! It's Friday!
Today is the time to reward your brain with alcohol...not punish it with philosophy!
Punish a mind with philosophy? Think Man!!
:lol:
Jim
I shared a house at Uni with 3 philosophy students (one of whom was trying to obtain a doctorate) and watched the most simple alcohol induced discussion turn into a philosophical nightmare....it tends to skew your view of philosophy.....