The Universe

We live in a Universe of causality. Our brains and thoughts operate in causality as well as everything else around us. To assume the Universe was created is to assume there is a cause for creation placed outside the Universe. This thought and logic uses our thinking process of causality and applies it outside of the Universe, which may have no such law. Therefore, it is an error in thought to assume there is a cause to the Universe, because doing so assumes the law of the Universe–causality–exists outside the Universe when there is no reason to believe that it does.

Another error in thought is to assume the Universe was created. This idea invokes time.  Assuming the Universe was created infers there is a moment — a time — before the Universe was created as well as a time after. Firstly, anything before the Universe was created exists outside the Universe and time may not exist outside the Universe and therefore there can be no “before.” Secondly, following that thought, the Universe may not have been created at all. It may have always existed.

In both cases there is an assumption that there is an outside to the Universe, a separation between here and what is “out there.” That is faulty logic. Both causality and time exist within the Universe; there is no logical reason to believe they exist outside the Universe, even if there is an outside at all. There may be no outside to the Universe and there may be no cause. The Universe may just have always been.

Are you thinking of the Big Bang? Both the Big Bang and the forever Universe can coexist. Imagine a balloon. Inflate it. Deflate it. Inflate it. Deflate it. Notice that the balloon never goes away. It’s a fact that inflation occurred in the Universe. It is illogical to assume there is an outside to the Universe. The Universe may be going through and endless cycle of inflation and deflation without ever going away itself.

Perhaps you say “everything has a “seed” stage.” Now that’s true within the Universe, but how can we know thats true outside the Universe? Whenever there is a seed, there is a before or a cause. By asserting the Universe came from a seed, you assert there is a cause to the Universe or a before the Universe. With this assertion, you create an “outside” to the Universe. Thats what creates the logic error. Firstly, there is no evidence or reason to believe such a claim. Secondly, when you open that door of causality to the Universe it will never end. There is always be another outside to the outside. There will always be a time before. If you claim the Universe was caused, then what caused the cause? And what caused that cause? You see, it never ends. Don’t create an endless loop when you ask “What created the Universe?” There is no reason to believe the rules causality and time which apply inside the Universe apply or exist outside it or even that there is an outside.
The Universe always was and always will be. There is no outside it or time before it. We may not survive the deflation, but the Universe will.