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I appreciate your post, but I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. In your opinion, our universe's existence became about simply because it had to? If time is infinite, what was happening prior to the "big bang"? Nothingness for billions of years and then suddenly something out of no where just simply because? Or did existence for everything coincide with the big bang? Again, I still don't understand how it would just simply come to be. I realize you say I don't have to understand... but that's really no different than believing in God, as you apparently understand.
But if what you say is true, and everything exists just simply because... I take no comfort in this, at all. Some people can deal with it and be ok with it, but I'm not one. Anyways, thanks again.
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The human mind is wired to not accept that energy can just "appear from nothing". This is reasonable since at this time it cannot. You need to "think outside the box" though. Sure, prior to creation nothing existed to create energy from, but also realize nothing existed to prevent it from being created. This is a bit of an oversimplification but if there are no rules on what can and cannot happen the chance that "nothing" will happen is just one in an infinite number of possibilities. It was inevitable something would eventually be created, when this happens laws would be be formed though since there was now something which could be interacted with. It just so happens that informational energy defining the universe itself was this first "something" and it "stacked well" with itself.
The creation of this energy was not totally by chance though, it came from the only law predating creation, the need for definition. The first law of thermodynamics demands a closed system to be applicable, the pre-creation universe lacked definition and therefore was not a closed system at all. With no boundries the universe was for all practical purposes endless. What is the total energy of an infinite system? Definition was demanded. The universe in fact limited how much energy can exist but in doing so created the first energy by this action.
As for the Big Bang being the source of creation. It created the universe as we know it but not energy. Inside the singularity of the pre-expanded Big Bang the energy which would create the subatomic particles we are familiar with resided. Prior to the creation of the singularity there was just that increasing amount of defining, informational energy. It makes sense that the less scattered the energy defined by informational energy was the more efficent it could be defined. Due to this all the rapidly created informational energy eventually coalesced, creating a singular entity which could be defined with existing energy without creation of more. The physical extremes created by the interaction of this much energy created the Big Bang. The energy which had the sole purpose of collectively defining itself became the particles you know today.
To conclude, the universe does no exist simply because it can. It exists because of the necessity of limits.