(August 26, 2016 at 1:11 pm)Rhythm Wrote: -a variation on the theme of whether or not the question is properly formed. Perhaps there's something, rather than nothing, because nothing is not a sensible concept in reference to the cosmos. It sounds deep and profound, but in that case the question is actually a trivial absurdism.
It's a convenient (but also rational) answer to a question whose more pedantic answer is simply "We don't know".
Nothing sure has been getting a lot of press lately. Krauss pulls the metaverse from it like a rabbit out of a hat!
Stopping at "We don't know" is little better than "Goddidit" and stopping there.
Don't stop.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder