(December 3, 2018 at 3:50 pm)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 1, 2018 at 2:30 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I just posted this within the last several weeks, and Polymath provided an updated link:
Creation of Universes from Nothing
Please note the plural in the paper.
So I read that paper and here's the bottom line:
"In this paper I would like to suggest a new cosmological scenario in which the universe is spontaneously created from literally nothing."
Interestingly the author, Vilenkin, used the word "created" implying a Creator.
But he also says "spontaneously" without further detail.
Literally nothing. Yes, in other words, creatio ex nihilo.
The question remains, does something come from "literally nothing"?
What caused it to come into being? If it was a natural phenomenon as someone suggested on this thread, where did that natural phenomenon come from?
Remember this quote "the universe is spontaneously created from literally nothing"
It is very significant.
Maybe the Cosmos just is, and simply requires no explanation; existence, like 2+2 = 4, is simply a brute fact that requires no explanation. Hence, "nothing" is a physical impossibility; as such, the Cosmos is eternal, without beginning or end, and without a center or an edge.