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Frankly, I have never thought it made sense. I find it easier to think of reality as a constant thing. It just is, always has been, always will be. In that co
by ddingus 4y ago
Frankly, I have never thought it made sense.
I find it easier to think of reality as a constant thing. It just is, always has been, always will be.
In that context a cyclic universe makes the most sense. It is all one big, really big wave function playing out as time and space, the likes of us just noise in the machine.
The physical laws to the best of our understanding, if a closer to inclusive, complete understanding can even be had, describe this wave function.
And that's it.
- wruza 4y ago“Always” implies some absolute time, wasn’t it shown to not exist?
- ddingus 4y agoWhen we somehow transcend time, perhaps those secondary phrases will make no sense to say.
- philophyse 4y ago> cyclic universe I've been shifting towards this point of view as well. When you consider that all of nature, from micro to macro scales, exhibits cyclic movement (in the widest sense of the term), it seems reasonable to infer that the universe itself is cyclic. This is not to endorse a naive, Nietzshean "eternal recurrence", any more than (for instance) the propagation of a plant from a seed leads to an exact replica of the plant from which the seed came.
- ddingus 4y agoIndeed. That is my observation too. For me, it was the combination of higher order dimensions, those ideas and what they can mean, and the need for beginnings and ends as an artifact of our own existence. In so many ways the wave is fundemental. Reality itself being described by them makes sense.