Subj : Re: The universe
To   : JOHN WILSON
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Sat Nov 04 2000 01:24 am

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> -=> TODD HENSON wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-
> 
>  >  >  TH> ...If the
>  >  >  TH> universe had a beginning, then it is perfectly rational to wonder
>  >  >  TH> about what came before it.
> 
>  If at some time you began to love your wife, where was your love before
>  that happened? That the kind of argument here; you use the word "rational"
>  as if it were appropriate.


I don't think you can put the origin of our space-time continuum and love
in the same category 
and apply the same wordings and standards to them both.


>  If the universe had a begining, that begining was the very start of
>  that before which there was nothing.


If there was totally nothing before, then there would have been nothing to
either act or to be 
acted upon in which to give rise to anything. Speaking in a more scientific
sense, if there were 
no quantum fluctuations, no forces, no reality itself, then it's not
rational to assume that the 
universe would exist.
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