Re: TIB: Re: Re: Fw: Ponder These [offlist]


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Re: TIB: Re: Re: Fw: Ponder These [offlist]





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From: TGaArdvark@aol.com <TGaArdvark@aol.com>
To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: TIB: Re: Re: Fw: Ponder These [offlist]


>
>> what was there before the universe expanded to fill that
>> space was likely pure symetry.
>
>Um, no.  By definition, there is nothing outside the universe
>because there is no "outside the universe".  Everything that
>exists (discounting dieties and the supernatural etc.) exists
>in the universe.  There is no space outside the universe. There
>isn't even nothing outside the universe.  The universe must
>go on indefinitely or have a spherical loop-shape because
>it is scientifically impossible for there to be a "wall" at the
>end of the universe.
>

And that "nothing" is thought by some to be symmetry, much as some think
that what existed before the big bang was perfect symmetry.