Nothing Cannot Exist Forever.

It Is Tribute To How Far We Have Come In Theoretical Physics That It Now Takes Enormous Machines And A Great Deal Of Money To Perform Experiments Whose Results We Can Not Predict.

The Whole History Of Science Has Been The Gradual Realization That Events Do Not Happen In An Arbitrary Manner, But That They Reflect A Certain Underlying Order, Which May Or May Not Be Divinely Inspired.

One Might Think This Means That Imaginary Numbers Are Just A Mathematical Game Having Nothing To Do With The Real World. From The Viewpoint Of Positivist Philosophy, However, One Cannot Determine What Is Real. All One Can Do Is Find Which Mathematical Models Describe The Universe We Live In. It Turns Out That A Mathematical Model Involving Imaginary Time Predicts Not Only Effects We Have Already Observed But Also Effects We Have Not Been Able To Measure Yet Nevertheless Believe In For Other Reasons. So What Is Real And What Is Imaginary? Is The Distinction Just In Our Minds?

Because There Is A Law Such As Gravity, The Universe Can And Will Create Itself From Nothing. Spontaneous Creation Is The Reason There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, Why The Universe Exists, Why We Exist. It Is Not Necessary To Invoke God To Light The Blue Touch Paper And Set The Universe Going.

If We Ever Do Find A Complete Theory Of The Universe, It Would Be A Great Triumph Of Human Reason But It Wouldn't Leave Much For Us To Do. We Need An Intellectual Challenge.