Re: Is Nothing Possible?
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According to our current laws of physics, the universe didn't always exist and won't always continue to exist. So without a universe, what's left?
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First of all, there is nothing in modern physics that claims the Universe will ever cease to exist. It's been a couple of years since I worked in the field, but I think I would have heard about something like that.
Second, physics does not and cannot answer questions about things external to our Universe (and that includes the temporal sense), since they are unobservable.
So we cannot state that "before" (I put this in quotes because time is part and parcel of the observable Universe, so it really doesn't ever make sense to talke about a "time" "before" the beginning of the Universe) there was "nothing." We do not know and can never know.
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