Let them know that our understanding of cause and effect breaks down when time does not exist. Yes, everything must come from something, something that preceded it. How can one thing come before something else if time literally doesn't exist?
The truth is that the "everything must come from something" principle is a temporal observation that isn't applicable when t = 0.
The truth is that the "everything must come from something" principle is a temporal observation that isn't applicable when t = 0.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell