Ersatz 'beginning'; ersatz 'ending'.
There are issues that anticipate, presume and even demand a ‘beginning and ending’.


"What was there before the ‘big bang’?
"Where did matter originate?
"Where was the universe before there was a God?"


Religion often answers such questions with the statement that there has always been a God.

Science is licensed to answer in the same reasoning.

There are non religious perspectives which proffer exactly that scientific answer to that religious question.
There has always been a universe of matter and all of its manifestations.


It is no less confounding to consider that matter has always been here than it is to propound that it ‘started, and/or, that it had a ‘beginning’ or ‘genesis’...

There is an outer (exterior) - macrocosmic - universe and an inner (interior) - microcosmic - universe, but this does not require that there is a finite ‘outside’ ‘universe’ and a finite ‘inside’ universe, discontinuous from the ‘single verse’.

The ‘outside’ of the universe directly implies limitations - that there was a ‘beginning’ of matter and all of its phenomenological components - electromagnetism, gravity, inertia, and, that there ‘must be’ a corresponding ‘end’ of the (contents of) the universe.

Whereas, matter dissolves into photons, resolve into matter, ad infinitum.

‘The surface’ of the sun, for example, constitutes the first impulses of energy that omni-directionally projected from its ‘beginning’. In the case of the sun, there likely was a beginning, but not in the consideration of the elemental material of which it is constituted - that’s always existed. Only changing its form and location, without beginning or ending, in accordance with the law of conservation of mass-energy.

A circuit of solid, liquid, gas and plasma.


In this setting, an electron, is a ‘standing wave particle’ of 4-D mass-field (the stuff of which all the sensory-evident material world is made), the ‘zero point’ - center - of which is just as inaccessible, just as infinitely remote and unreachable, as the outside parameter(s) of the collectively endless universe.

In accord with this theme: ‘Beginning’ and ‘ending’, as applied to universal micro-macrocosmic issues, may be colorful word spinach, cultivated, fertilized and maintained, in an existentially isolated, man made greenhouse.


Best regards,
- RP
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