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[CraigD]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

… There was never a time that the universe did not exist, and there will never be a time that it ceases to exist. It simply is because it must be. …

TBD is articulating, I think, a thought most of us give some credit to in answer to the thorny problem of explaining the “once, there was nothing, then something happened, and there was something” scenario.

Personally, I believe, but can’t make a solid scientific argument supporting, that there has “always” been “something”. However, I also believe that something – the universe – has not always had the same “natural laws”. Just as the distribution and arrangement of matter and energy appears to change over large periods of time, the rules governing their interaction may also change. At present, I find Quantum Graph Theory the most elegant and compelling scheme for explaining such change. (Warning: the linked to page is, as are nearly all “well-developed” QGT of which I’m aware, a work of fiction, describing theory that does not yet, and may never, exist, as if it were historic fact)

If I’m correct in my speculative belief, events such as the big bang may have resulted from abrupt change in the laws of Physics themselves – in the terminology of QGT, phase transitions in QG network, after which the QG network has remained significantly unchanged. In “deep time” (10^37 + years after the big bang, etc.), where current theory predicts various ”end of the universe” scenarios, something very different may occur due to another abrupt transition in th QG network.