666 wrote:
sofaking wrote:
remember, all the rules, laws and theories are what WE have conceived, and nature just has a way of letting us know that we just haven't figured it out yet....but it makes for a nice hobby
But the laws of thermodynamics are very real. Have you ever seen a perpetual motion machine? I haven't. And the universe itself is only the biggest, most complex machine in existence. It'll wind down and stop eventually, even if it's trillions of years from now. It'll either continue to spread into ethereal nothingness, or collapse into cold, lifeless ice and stone. That's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Then what? Nothing? In theory, "nothing" cannot exist because anything that one would consider "nothing" is actually "something"
Even in the vaccuum of space, nothing does not exist (from wiki):
"However, supposing such a region existed, it would still not be "nothing", since it has properties and a measureable existence as part of the quantum-mechanical vacuum."
So if the universe had a beginning and an end, what came before and what comes after?