/lit/ - Literature

>>11059854
>>And as Land spoke, he prowled the classroom, sometimes clambering absentmindedly over the common-room chairs like an outlandish mountain goat, sometimes poised squatting on the seat of a chair like an overgrown mantis
>Would you take his class?
where do i have to sign up?

>>10512553
so far all the answers we have amount to the universe/god have always existed

there are some meme scientists like Lawrence M. Krauss that wrote a book "A Universe from Nothing" that have a thesis that the universe can originate from "nothing". But of course this is a trick, he defines "nothing" as a quantum void, which is not a real void, but it's a kind a substance with properties and fluctuations from which matter and universes may appear, so it's still an eternal substance from which the universe originates

what is kind of tricky is that our time originated on the big bang, so even if that eternal quantum void exists, it can't fluctuate with time, it's out of time and precedes time, so it would have to fluctuate in a different dimension or time than ours