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The Dawn of Time

Posted 02-16-2010 at 11:50 PM by Samm
Updated 02-21-2010 at 11:33 PM by Samm

I take it as an incontestable premise that a condition of existence cannot derive from a condition of non-existence. From this it follows that if ever there is a condition of non-existence then no condition of existence may ever follow upon it. Because there is now a condition of existence, we may therefore deduce that there has heretofore been no condition of non-existence.

Something has always existed.

According to cosmologists, the universe has existed for 13.7 billion years. The space-time continuum exists only within the universe and not beyond it. Thus, there...
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A New Vision of the Universe

Posted 02-02-2010 at 10:13 PM by Samm
Updated 02-03-2010 at 11:44 PM by Samm

Suppose the universe is easier to understand than you ever could have imagined. All you have to do is maybe look at it from a different point of view. Follow me through the rabbit's hole.

I take as my starting point that all I can ever know, about myself or the universe in which I seem to dwell, comes to me by way of experience. I experience the contents of my senses. Sight and sound. Taste and smell. Contact, temperature, and balance (gravitational pull & equilibrium). I also experience the contents of my imagination, which deftly mimics all of my senses. I can imagine...
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