(July 12, 2013 at 10:25 pm)Consilius Wrote:(July 12, 2013 at 10:02 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: The universe had an origin of a sort, but regardless your question is malformed. For starters, you need to define what you mean by 'universe'.The universe has always existed. Why can't it continue to exist, then? Why will it cease to exist?
Clearly you cannot be defining it as the totality of existence, because then your question answers itself: it always has existed in some form.
What? No one here has said the universe will cease to exist. If you're referring to the 'fate' of the universe (i.e Heat death, etc.), the universe still exists, just in a different form.