Necessary Thing

[downbeatplumb]

My thoughts, for something to exist it must have duration i.e. a period of time in which it is existent, it must also have a place to exist.
I think that probably space time is and always has been eternal and that stuff just happens in it. Probably because of the madness that is quantum physics.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/crit...veneziano/

Quantum physics is fascinating for sure. So two things I found interesting in your response:

1) You do seem to think that there is a necessary thing, i.e. its non-existence is not possible, viz. space-time. It just exists. 

2) You said that "for something to exist, it must have... a period of time in which it is existent, it must also have a place to exist". Doesn't it fascinate you that, somehow, this does not apply to the existence of space-time? Space-time's existence doesn't require a duration of time nor a place... it IS its own duration of time and space. It IS its own condition for existence. That seems to make space-time the most interesting thing which exists. What do you think?

Not that interesting, I'm more of a boob man.