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The Ultimate Question - Why is there something rather than nothing?

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Larni
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07-22-2011 4:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
07-20-2011 1:58 AM

It's inevitable?
This is just my armchair philosophising:
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There is something rather than nothing because there is no such 'thing' as nothing.
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Maybe 'nothing' cannot be part of the universe.
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There will always be something so there will never be (or have been) nothing.
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Larni
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07-22-2011 6:40 AM 		Reply to: Message 84 by Chuck77
07-22-2011 6:33 AM

Re: Purpose
For there to be something from nothing there has to be purpose or there would always be nothing.
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Or, there has never been, nor ever will be nothing.
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Larni
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08-26-2011 8:14 AM 		Reply to: Message 359 by cavediver
08-26-2011 7:12 AM

Re: Thermodynamics
The principle tool we use to study the Universe as a whole in General Relativity, and it is essentially a universe-generating machine. Slight tweaks to the parameters fed into the GR mathematics result in the different types of universe we are investigating as possible models of our own Universe.
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I never knew this, at all. I thought GR was a bunch of numbers that said: "this is how it is".
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You live and learn, eh?
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