[Fredrick]

Hi David,

I see where you are going with your good reply, but to me it feels like you are overshooting the specific location a tiny bit of what I am trying to deliver. First, you will not find me using the term nothingness. I have nothing against it, but I find it a vague term that does not clarify antyhing specifically. I use the term nothing, just like finding nothing in my wallet is a moment of embarassment to me; I consider nothing one of the real aspects of my reality.

I use nothing at the center of the first second of the Big Bang as a spatial aspect of materialization; there is an absence of materialization in the process of materialization. Again, much like there is an aspect of having nothing in your wallet is indeed an aspect of our monetary economy. To talk about the economy and disregarding the fact that someone can end up with nothing does not surmount to discussing every aspect of the economy.

Whether or not there is a state before the current state of the universe is not a matter I need to delve into with Empty Nest since that would be like talking about the time before the monetary economy came into being; There is a real separation in that the first state (of bartering) does not deal with money at all, and the second state (the monetary economy) has some laws that are particular to that of monetary economy only, not to the first. Having said that, please understand that nobody should withhold you from talking about what was before the Big Bang, but you cannot force me into doing that either.

I only want to discuss our universe, and Empty Nest is about our universe, not about what was before. Indeed, the Empty Nest implies a letting go of pressure, and want to go one tiny step further than the current expansion as we know today. Expansion does clarify the direction of matter, but it does not calrify where it came from; Empty Nest would explain the direction of matter plus gives an indication that the propelled energy is turned into matter. In Empty Nest the center is empty not because there is nothing, but because it lacks the propellant, and therefore this area does not lead to materialization. Whatever was before the universe came into being, I state as much as anybody else from a scientific perspective: I have no clue, except that is was able to bring forth our universe. The laws of our universe do not necessarily have to be in place in that state; only the condition that these laws could be activated once the universe came into being. Potentially? Yes. Necessary condition? No. Just like the barter economy brought forth the monetary economy, but they are not based on the exact same principles, though they share many.