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Allen,

Thanks for the compliment.

I am of the opinion that an eternal universe needs no reason or cause to exist. It only needs the ability by means of it's interaction to maintain it's motions (the HOW), else it becomes static (motionless).

This is the hardest part of an eternal framework, trying to configure/define the three fundamentals so they don't become static through equalization. Even an admission to absolute particle motion doesn't completely solve the problem due to the need to explain the coming together of particles to form more massive objects. An ever swirling gathering of particles with no rhyme or reason could perpetually swirl due to absolute motion with no need to prevent equalibrium. It could be in a state of everlasting random motion, but this too is static to the ability to form. When motion becomes less random, allowing for mass (motion density) to increase, whereby our observable universe of varying motion dense regions of space is observed, a mechanism must be accounted for.

Even though the universe is full of particles with absolute motion, this mechanism is now at risk of becoming static, due to the need for it to give direction to particle motion. Thus, I feel the true quest is for the directional mechanism, that allows for an ever motionally evolving universe, to be understood.

Life (apparently free moving forms within a world with a directional mechanism) is a construct of that fundamental mechanism, and an important part to how that mechanism maintains itself. While the stars and planets seem to behave as they universally should, biological life seemingly goes and does as it wants.

The first steps to a true Theory of Everything, in my opinion, will be explaining how biological motion fundamentally relates to galactic motions. They both must have a common relative potential. Though one seems erratic (life) and the other patternable (galactic), they are both dancing to the same song. Though our bodies dance and sway with every beat, our minds are tone deaf. We don't hear (acknowledge) the music, but we dance to it none the less. Our consciousness keeps us in rythm, but it doesn't allow us to sing along.

A study of life, in my opinion, won't reveal a reason or cause for the eternal system itself, but it will reveal an insight to the inner workings of a beautifully orchestrated universal symphony of motion. Life is cause for nothing. It's an essential formation of matter to maintain everything. Life is perhaps better viewed as an effect.

I hope this makes sense.