God.
Next question?
I’ll be brief: G-d. :)
Let there be light.
Who created God?
Someone was going to ask, nobody is going to answer.
Government spending. I heard it on NPR.
“Roughly speaking, there are two possibilities”
Actually there are three. The third is that it doesn’t exist at all in the form we imagine. It’s all an illusion.
Either the universe has always existed, or it came to be out of nothing. Either way is mind blowing.
It’s amusing how the so-called big bang is spoken of as ‘settled science’; fact.
And no explanation of how it came into being in the first place (woe to them who bring up that follow-up question!).
From absolute nothingness came the universe by God. The Planck Epoch t=0 to approximately t=10**(-43) belongs to God. The physics and mathematics that came from nothingness takes over after that.
The question is wrong. It is not WHAT. It is WHO.
The assumption of billions of years is wrong.
All the answers that you seek are written in the opening verses of the Bible.
God Spoke
Maxwell’s Equations
And then there was Light
Archangel Michael “Lord, it’s getting kind of dull around here.”
God “Here, hold muh beer.”
Matrix – the universe is a simulation like in the Matrix movie
Lab – the universe was created in a lab for a specific purpose known only to the alien scientists
Basement – the universe was created by someone who is not an expert, like a teenager living in his parent’s basement
I think this author may have been playing with us but it was an interesting article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnhken4_-A0
watch the vid, you will realize how small you really are and the realization that this just didn’t happen it was created
Now answer this question: why are all the galaxies, including our own, moving toward the exact same spot at millions of miles per second? Or what is the Great Attractor?
Probably did. This one will expand until it runs out of momentum, collapse down into nothingness again, and then it'll happen again, automatically. Forever in both directions, repetitive, automatic, and without any particular agency. I don't know why people have such a hard time with this.
Problem with most answers is they’re predicated on the notion of “before”. Time, as we perceive it, likely did not exist.
The Universe cannot be the cause of its own existence. The cause is something outside of the Universe, which is called God.
St Thomas of Aquinas says it better.
God is outside of the chain of cause-effect in which we live. Anything in the chain cannot have started the chain.
Too far beyond our comprehension, we have millions of years of evolution to go before human minds reach the necessary capacity to find the real answer. Maybe it isn’t going to happen in our present life form. Maybe the Universe is there because it is there and we are here because we are here? Does the question need to be answered? None of us will ever know, we can only use our imaginations until we die. The answer is too far into the future and our crystal balls are not powerful enough to see it.