Double Rantings

Greetings, I am Paul. I'm sitting on the floor in Maren's house, using her laptop. Sort of. And now, I will regale you now with my theories concerning the theory of cause and effect. As I understand it, mass and energy contradict the universal application of cause and effect. The Big Bang itself holds with the fact that in the beginning everything was in one little ball, and everything burst out from that point.

By the way, I'm Maren. Nothing afore mentioned is true, except for what Paul will now tell you. Ahem.

I may not have done my research properly, but the conservation of mass and energy means we've never actually seen creation of either one. There's always something before it--a conversion, some little subatomic particles breaking up or colliding, etc. Anytime we look for a genesis, we find something before. Even now one theory about the big bang tries to explain that all matter and energy got into that tiny ball as the result of a previous collapse of a universe, and that this universe is just one in a long course of yo-yoings. Whichever's right, the fact remains that matter and energy were not created, they just were. This is a very unseemly breach of the laws of cause and effect. We either get into an infinite loop of conversions from something previous, with no initial starting point (which violates cause and effct) or we find a point where things just jumped into being out of absolutely nothing (which once again is firing at cause and effect). Even religious explanations can't appease cause and effect--if God, the gods, the universe, an Unmoved Mover, or whatever vocabulary word is convenient brought the universe into being, where did they come from? Some of what Joseph Campbell listed as more primitive mythologies might say the universe just happened, but that starts on the supposition that cause and effect didn't apply initially.

So. Either we find a beginning point to creation--which, because there was absolutely nothing before this creation, would be an effect without a cause--or we continue in an infinite loop of conversions--which once again decides that no initial cause was necessary. Either way, cause and effect did not apply to the start of the whole process.

Oh well. And by the way, pink makes me feel pretty.

~Paul