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Author Topic:   A Simplified Proof That The Universe Cannot Be Explained
RAZD
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Message 296 of 342 (793370)
10-26-2016 5:04 PM
Reply to: Message 295 by nano
10-26-2016 4:43 PM


The First Thing is the first thing to ever exist. At the point of its existence there is nothing else in the universe. ...
But the "First Thing" is not the universe, it is in the universe.
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Message 311 of 342 (793430)
10-28-2016 4:16 PM
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... It doesn't matter what the first thing is, it is the first thing to ever exist anywhere. It could be a particle, a force, an underlying structure/law of the universe or even God.
I'm just trying to understand why you think a tautology is an important statement.
If the "first thing" is outside the universe (see brane theory for creating universes) how is it a "first thing" for the universe?
Or consider two universes (physics allows multiple universes to exist) ... is a "first thing" in one also the "first thing" in the other or did one come before the other?
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Message 318 of 342 (793443)
10-29-2016 8:38 AM
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10-28-2016 4:27 PM


... Thank you for calling my proof statement a tautology because it is true by necessity and by its logical form.
A tautology is mundanely true because it references itself, and is therefore meaningless.
As I have stated, when I say "universe" I mean:
universe = multiverse = all of existence
Ah, so you redefine words to maintain your dogma. Unfortunately for you, that does not make it true.
And I noticed you didn't address the rest of my post:
quote:
If the "first thing" is outside the universe (see brane theory for creating universes) how is it a "first thing" for the universe?
In fact all your replies seem to be one-liners to one issue at a time. I'll keep this in mind.
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Message 319 of 342 (793444)
10-29-2016 8:48 AM
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10-29-2016 7:29 AM


Tangle writes:
What if the first thing was nothing?
A confusion of terms and another red herring.
Actually it is an aspect of current thinking in physics, that out of nothing two things appear, a particle and an antiparticle that when combined become nothing.
So you have nothing, then two things, then nothing.
You can even get several particles all at once, but never a single one, just as this can be happening simultaneously ...
Thus for your tautology to be true the "First Thing" has to be nothing.
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