[itsahoot]

Okay, so how, why, and where does this energy appear from?

More interesting how can there be anything? Even worse is where would nothing exist?

Since I was just a small tyke I always wondered how something could never end yet if something has an end it must have a limiting barrier which would necessitate another side.

Time for us is a measure we use to regulate our day and seasons but wouldn't time exist whether we measured it or not? How could there be no time? If as we are told the universe once was compressed into a mass smaller than a period on a paper, it still had to occupy a space even if that small, something still had to enclose it. Which means there had to be a space outside the small spec we define as the universe.

Lot of questions with answers that I suspect are unknowable at least in our human domain.

[A Navy Vet]

" Time for us is a measure we use to regulate our day and seasons but wouldn't time exist whether we measured it or not? How could there be no time? If as we are told the universe once was compressed into a mass smaller than a period on a paper, it still had to occupy a space even if that small, something still had to enclose it. Which means there had to be a space outside the small spec we define as the universe."

Sentient humans can do our math and equations for the Big Bang by using Red Shift and extrapolating backwards to a beginning. It's still our construct of time. Without our observation, time doesn't exist, except maybe on an exestential plane from another source of intelligence. THEY could see when they placed the period or basketball in a void. Still, it just mean they saw the progress of their experiment, but doesn't mean time is an entity. They would see it as a progression of stuff they put in place.

Lot of questions with answers that I suspect are unknowable at least in our human domain."

I believe the same.