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249 points Leftium | 2 comments | 19 Apr 24 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
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NayamAmarshe ◴[19 Apr 24 09:32 UTC] No.40084790[source]▶
I love the end of it, just a big circle of random static noise. Looking at stuff like this always brings up the question of why does anything exist at all?
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kaashif ◴[19 Apr 24 12:46 UTC] No.40086145[source]▶
What kind of answer could even possibly answer that question?

Any answer is subject to the follow-up question, well why does that thing exist? Why did that happen?

If a question cannot be answered, there's no point in asking it I think.

Other questions about the physical laws governing the big bang or inflation or black holes can be answered, although they might be very difficult to answer.

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1. kimbernator ◴[19 Apr 24 15:34 UTC] No.40088111[source]▶
I believe it's valuable to think of this question in terms of how our physical reality really can't answer it. It's a tacit acknowledgement that the rules of the physical world we exist in are not universal; We live with causality, but for existence to begin it must not be a universal requirement.
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2. NayamAmarshe ◴[19 Apr 24 20:48 UTC] No.40091734[source]▶
Eastern philosophy understood it quite early, you can only go so far with cause and effect.

Brahman, Prime mover, are great explanations as to why there must be a causeless entity, something that is not ruled by material nature in order to be the causeless source of it. The cause of all causes that is causeless itself.