Quote:You're thinking of the Big Bang as being a critical point in time.Actually we have good, solid evidence that when the "big bang" was a singularity, that time was not active..as time and matter are connected at the hip. What made time rolling to cause the big bang and mass is something they are currently trying to figure out with the hadron colider.
Quote:Forget about that.Sure, I forget things better when cold beer is involved.
Quote:How did anything ever get started in the first place?Magnets?
Quote:If something preexisted the Big Bang (like quantum fields or whatever), then from whence did they come? And so on, etc, etc, etc.The concept of string theory is trending downward now in csmological circles.
Quote:What I'm saying is that very fact that anything exists at all is "magic".Magic is the art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science.
Ex nihilo is a Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing". It often appears in conjunction with the concept of creation, as in creatio ex nihilo, meaning "creation out of nothing"—chiefly in philosophical or theological contexts, but also occurs in other fields
Quote:Existence itself defies our conception of "logic". So anyone who proclaims otherwise simply isn't thinking deep enough.Im sorry...I promise I will think more deeply in the future.
Quote:To proclaim that "magic doesn't exist" and to try to support that as having some sort of scientific merit is nothing short of utter absurdity.I was a practicioner of the occult for well over a decade. I have dumped it all, but I have a very warm spot in my heart for the esoteric utterances of the Erisian movement.
