The answer

[1plus1]

One of the Ones, everything and nothing have both the same definition, because they are one and the same. that definition is: no one thing ( no thing) can be everything, and no one thing (no thing) can be nothing. but here's the trick, don't look at it as something negative ( nothing can explain everything so there is no answer) look at it as something positive ( nothing can explain everything because the word and meaning of nothing is the answer). Austin is right about nothing and everything carrying the same info content 0, but what if everything was 1, and nothing was -1? Add everything to nothing, 1+(-1)=0. But what is 2 to 1? wouldn't the number 2 see itself as 1 because it is one away from 1? couldn't 1 be zero from 2's point of view? if numbers go to infinity, couldn't any number see itself as 1 compared to the one before it? and the one after every number be a 2? i also noticed too, that your nickname is very close to mine.... 1plus1, one of the ones. Let me know your thinking.

Your last post reminded me of something too. just earlier today, me and my brother were laying interlock brick and i said something funny yet sensical. How do we know we need to know something we don't know, if we don't know it yet? do we need to know the answer to everything? we don't know because we don't know the answer yet. but if we did find the anwser to everything, would it be of any use to us? Did we need to know it if it turns out the answer to everything is totally useless to us? so why feel the need to know something we don't know if we don't even know if we need to know it.... Wrap your mind around that :P

[austintorn@aol.com]

Well, we are 13.751 billions years away from the origin, if there even was one of a creative type, for stuff could be eternal (possible, but I doubt it).

So, we were not at the origin, can't get back there, and don't see anything else originating.

It's OK to say that we don't know something.

The natural selection that we went through prompts us to look for intent in nature, such as good and evil spirits, but none were found.

[dipayankar]

Hey guys please forgive my ignorance, but what answer are we trying to uncover in this thread?

[1plus1]

Relatively speaking, yes we are 13.751 billion years away from our 'origin', but ultimately, we're never more than 10^-40 seconds away from our origin. We disappear and reappear instantaneously all the time, in between planck time intervals and planck distances. So if we don't exist in between planck intervals of time and space, and we do in planck intervals of time and space, our origin resets itself every 10^-40 seconds, or whatever the precise planck unit is for time. It's the origin of our level of order that occurred 13.751 billion years ago, the level of order that is limited by our lowest amounts of time, energy, space, and our highest amounts of time, energy and space, which changes as you scale up or down in levels of order. Sure it's okay to say we don't know something, but what you say out loud isn't what your mind really thinks. If you were okay with saying you don't know something, you wouldn't care about not knowing it, yet you're on this website like all of us, so i think you're not okay with not knowing something, not to insult you.But i don't think anyone is okay not knowing something, it seems like everyone would want to have ultimate knowlegde.

[austintorn@aol.com]

We all like to learn, me included.

Some, though are not OK with not knowing something, so they make it up or cling to myth.

I myself have a great theory of the origin of the universe, one that get through where many get stuck, but it is all trash since I, nor anyone, knows the origin.

It's just that I am rational enough to admit it.

[dipayankar]

Convincing. But how will you account for Cosmic Microwave Background?

Relatively speaking, yes we are 13.751 billion years away from our 'origin', but ultimately, we're never more than 10^-40 seconds away from our origin. We disappear and reappear instantaneously all the time, in between planck time intervals and planck distances. So if we don't exist in between planck intervals of time and space, and we do in planck intervals of time and space, our origin resets itself every 10^-40 seconds, or whatever the precise planck unit is for time. It's the origin of our level of order that occurred 13.751 billion years ago, the level of order that is limited by our lowest amounts of time, energy, space, and our highest amounts of time, energy and space, which changes as you scale up or down in levels of order. Sure it's okay to say we don't know something, but what you say out loud isn't what your mind really thinks. If you were okay with saying you don't know something, you wouldn't care about not knowing it, yet you're on this website like all of us, so i think you're not okay with not knowing something, not to insult you.But i don't think anyone is okay not knowing something, it seems like everyone would want to have ultimate knowlegde.

[1plus1]

Our universe is so big to us and we're so small to it, we perceive it as existing for billions of years already, and probably another billions of years after we die. But if there could be an intelligent life form that was the same size and lifespan of our universe, it wouldn't seem to it that, say, 40 billion years would feel like 40 billion years to say an immortal human being, it would feel like a normal lifespan and wouldn't have to wait 40 billion years to die, just its own lifespan. The universe is a big machine, and as we all know, any machine contained within the universe has a beginning and end, entropy that causes inefficiency. Our universe has a beginning and end, material wise, and therefore isn't 100% efficient, not peice of single matter is 100% efficient either.
If in between planck units of time and space, there is no time and space, nothing is limiting matter and anti matter to collide, no time no space. So, continuously, matter and anti matter are annhiliating eachother, and that puts stress on each particle, so much that it loses energy, in the form of radiation like microwave and heat, etc. These intervals of time happen virtually uniformly everywhere to every particle at virtually the same time. Except in the beginning, matter/antimatter were so efficient, they let off huge amounts of energy each planck unit, but over time, and the matter/anti matter lose weight to radiation, theres less weight the next time, so less radiation. Wherever these intervals might occur out of sync with other intervals in different locations in space, are out of sync at such small time frames that they're undetectable. Therefore, all the matter in the universe is essentially being broken down all at an even rate at the same time losing mass to heat and radiation. Shouldn't this cause one huge, basically uniform, decreasing output of microwaves, from essentially everywhere? Doesn't that mean that the whole universe is getting lighter? Wouldn't that mean gravity is losing it's strength? I beleive this theory works for the big bang theory too because it implies that at one point, all matter had a uniform beginning and was essentially infinitely dense, and 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999 effecient.