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Why there is something rather than nothing...
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RE: Why there is something rather than nothing...
(August 24, 2016 at 10:32 am)Little lunch Wrote: Only if you believe that there was nothing before this universe or outside of it beyond our sight or replacing it some time after it is extinguished.

Er..no.  That's why there is the term 'cosmos' instead of universe.  Cosmos includes universes that might have predated our own, or universes that are outside of our own (multiverse), or universes that might come after our own.

That's why Sagan says that the cosmos is everything that has been, is, and will be.  It's the all-inclusive term for 'everything,' while 'universe' is just for our current universe.  That's just the definition of cosmos.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Why there is something rather than nothing... - by Jehanne - August 23, 2016 at 11:25 pm
RE: Why there is something rather than nothing... - by FatAndFaithless - August 24, 2016 at 10:36 am

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