Did something eternal make the universe?

Question

if u look at the universe as a giant timeline go alllll the way back. nothing can keep on creating and you had to start somewhere. and that somewhere had to have always existed. what do you think it was??

Answer 1

me or god (the christian god)

Answer 2

I am sitting here at the Bar in Joe's Diner. Let me holler in to Bubba and ask him what it was that created the Universe...
Bubba is older than the hills and he knows all kinds of stuff like that cause he has a real good recollector in his brain.

Hmm-m... Bubba says that this question is "like a flea on the leg of an Elephant considering the State of Michigan on a really hot night." "The flea just can't get the job done..." It is beyond your scope of comprehension, just like the State of Michigan is to the mind of a flea...beyond his ability to comprehend.

This does not cast any criticism onto the asker, it merely is stated in respect for the obvious fact that written records, evidence, traces, foot prints, evidence trails, and so forth no longer exist, or never existed. So, all that will come from questions about B4 the Begining is a heap of silly conjecture.

You would be well counselled to study and learn about things which can be studied and examined in depth right now, today.
Doing so will increase your mental knowledge base and be of benefit to you in later years. Pondering the unanswerable is most likely a waste of your time. One possible exception to my recommendation might be a case where you are a real Astronomy student working on a Thesis for a Phd in Astronomy...but were that the case, I doubt seriously that you would turn to people in the street for answers to your questions.

Answer 3

No. The universe is perfectly finite and whatever "made it", if anything, could have been perfectly finite itself. But if it is finite, it ain't god, right?

And as far as a theological answer is concerned that you are looking for... why should I admire a god who couldn't create anything bigger than "that"?

I mean, come on... all it takes is a 94" parabolic mirror in space and a radio antenna the size of a large pizza to see all the way to the end/beginning (which is the same).

You call that large? Please....!

In effect I find the thought that nothing and no one created the universe much more interesting than the tired old story of God blowing up some clay animals. Don't you?

:-)

Answer 4

Your question makes the precondition of SOMEPLACE having always existed. What is your proof for that? You are starting with a theological premise and your answer expects a theological answer. I'm not going to give you one.
No one has the slightest idea what happened before the big bang or even if there was such a time as before the big bang.

Time basically starts at the big bang. This question has no possible scientific answer although the brane concept hints at an answer. But a concept that can never be tested can never really be much of an hypothesis, much less a theory.

Answer 5

Line is dull... Universe doesn't... Its not even like line with imperfections... with dots... We say time is line... but this *line* is very complicated... We seem to fallow branch instead of line... Some of us claim to know simultaneous worlds what complicates even more... but point is that the only one logic thing about Universe that he seems to be permanent but changing... like cycle that actually spin on always different circles... Or maybe they are the same... So... maybe world wasn't made once... maybe he wasn't even made by one Eternal... Do we really know who or what is God?... Question for answer as it always is... We can only speculate... So close but so far from the real answer dear friend... I know more but I don't know how to put it in answer :)

Answer 6

Unless the spacetime of the universe is curved in on itself, so that the ends meet. At which point the beginning would be the end, so all points are the beginning/ending.

Answer 7

Of course. God made the universe.

Answer 8

god (see eternity)