re: Open this thread and have your mind blown.

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If space-time, matter and energy actually came into existence from nothing at the point of the Big Bang then there should have been a smoothness which would have precluded the formation of anything beyond particles. Gravity would have been expressed the same everywhere so nothing like stars, galaxies and black holes could have formed.

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Nothing comes from nothing.

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Only if we define nothing as that which we have not yet detected.

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And although we live on a world where balance is essential, where there must be a yin for every yang and lightness for every darkness ... this universe follows no such rules.

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These are human constructs. The Universe has its own versions of symmetry.

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It's total chaos.

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The "goal" of the Universe, as we currently understand it, is ultimate entropy. At the point of the Big Bang there existed ultimate order.