(February 16, 2015 at 1:19 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, things get a bit weird when you talk about eternal things. For something to have proceeded an eternal universe, it must have caused the universe "giving" it an eternal past, or perhaps putting it in a state where it mimics a universe that actually has had an eternal past. Like a saved game state.
I'm not sure how else it could work.
Nothing could have preceded an eternal universe because it never had a beginning to precede.