On 1/5/2015 3:50 PM, LizR wrote:
Eternal inflation seems to assume there is something because "there has always been something". However if so, it sidesteps the underlying issue - why is there this (eternal) something? The question itself - and any attempted answer - can't be answered causally.
"Sidesteps"? or shows it's an invented issue. If there were nothing would the issue be why isn't there something? Why should /nothing/ be unquestionably accepted as the default that needs no explanation?
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