Whenever a poster wants to know who created or caused God, I love to point out that there are no natural laws without space/time and physical causality. And further that inflationary theory is not creation ex nihilo.
Mathematically, the dimension of a space is the minimum number of coordinates (axes) necessary to identify a point within the space.
A space of zero dimensions is a point; one dimension, a line, two dimensions, a plane; three, a cube, etc. A sphere such as the earth requires two coordinates, longitude and latitude.
That is the geometry of it. In zero dimensions, the mathematical point is indivisible.
It is not nothing. It is a spatial point.
In ex nihilo Creation, the dimensions are not merely zero, they are null, dimensions do not exist at all. There is no space and no time. Period.
There is no mathematical point, no volume, no content, no scalar quantities. Ex nihilo doesn’t exist in relationship to anything else; there is nothing.
In an existing physical space, each point (e.g. particle) can be parameterized by a quantity such as mass. The parameter (e.g. a specific quantity within the range of possible quantities) is in effect another descriptor or quasi-dimension that uniquely identifies the point within the space.
Moreover, if the quantity of the parameter changes for a point, then a time dimension is invoked. For example, at one moment the point value is “0” and the next it is “1”.
Wave propagation cannot occur in null dimensions nor can it occur in zero spatial dimensions, a mathematical point; a dimension of time is required for any fluctuation in a parameter value at a point.
But there’s more. Wave propagation must also have a spatial/temporal relation from cause point to effect point, i.e. physical causation.
For instance “0” at point nt causes “1” at point n+1t+1 and “1” at point nt etc..
Obviously, physical wave propagation cannot precede space/time and physical causality.
In the absence of time, events cannot occur.
Both space and time are required for physical causation.
There is no ex nihilo explanation for the beginning of real space and real time and therefore physical causality.
And because, since the 1960’s forward, measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation consistently agree that the universe is expanding – that there was a beginning of real space and real time – we know that there was creation ex nihilo.
Only God can be the uncaused cause, The Creator.
Space, time and causation are not properties of God the Creator.
They are properties of the Creation.
God is uncaused, timeless and spaceless. He created causation, time and space.
Indeed, it is so obvious that God is the Creator ex nihilo that everyone will be held accountable for noticing.
His Name is I AM.
Oops, I meant to ping y’all to 57.
What you said.....
No. There is no such thing as ex nihilo creation. The physics of this world arise out of a more fundamental physics as a phase change. That fundamental physics the physics of this world arises out of always existed.
" All physical cosmologies (inflationary theory, cyclic, imaginary time, multi-verse, ekpyrotic, etc.) require space and time for physical causality.
The geometric dimensions of this world apply to the physics of this world only, not to any other. If you are going to talk physics, keep in mind that the fact that this 4d world arose out of a more fundamental physics of higher dimension. It did not arise out of nothing as in the nonscientific claim of ex nihilo by virtue of the conservation of energy.
Not to put too fine a point ;-) on it, but, technically,
The surface of "A sphere such as the earth requires two coordinates, longitude and latitude." '-}