(November 28, 2019 at 8:20 pm)Otangelo Wrote:(November 23, 2019 at 3:44 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: My own intuition is that absolute nothingness is a self-contradictory state of affairs and therefore could never have really existed. Literally, lacking time, absolute nothingness could not even 'last' an instant. I think the quantum foam Krauss describes may be as little of something as it's possible for there to have ever been.
Virtual particles require a quantum vacuum. So you have to ask what caused that quantum vacuum into being, since it could not be eternal.
Asserts who?