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Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by speedbird on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:11AM (#32619226)
Do we? Please enlighten …
Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by Amezarak on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:30AM (#32619406)
I think most statements like this have an underlying conceptual problem in that they assume the existence of causality.

Since the Big Bang is the beginning of space and time, it doesn’t make sense to say it “came from” anything - not nothing, anything. Nothing could have “caused” it because causality depends on there being a before in which the cause could take place. Causality breaks down with the beginning of time and that causes us a lot of conceptual confusion.

Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by dijerido on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:17AM (#32619285)
This argument goes back to Parmenides.