Day: March 15, 2007

Stephen Hawking tells us the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing. I don’t believe this. I believe the universe is. Full stop. It’s us, beings, who are limited by time.

Clearly, things do happen in that universe. Maybe a big bang did happen? I even believe that if it isn’t limited by time, the same things will have happened and will keep happening over and over again. Maybe is time an event like any other within that model?

The thing that really bugs me is the why; but I stopped questioning myself “what started it”. I think it never started, I think it is. To have a moment of starting, you need to be limited by time. Like how human beings, animals, planets and stars are limited by time.

Religious people will probably now think: it’s God who started all this. To which I would answer something about turtles all the way down (it doesn’t answer the question, it just moves it).