Anthony Edgar wrote:Before this alleged Big Bang event, were the laws of physics already in place? I mean, without any laws of physics, maybe no explosion at all could have occurred. Or did the laws of physics arrive after this Big Bang? My brain hurts when I contemplate these things.
It shouldn't. In the beginning was the 'word'.
Consider the 'word' as an infinite detail of all that can occur to an infinite degree.
With cause, a segment of possibility came to be. If you want to get into 'causation', A good coverage is provided at plato-stanford-edu under 'causation-metaphysics'. I can't link as I am too new a member.
So, let me just provide you with an example :
An infinite ether of possibility exists :
[infinity, - , -, - , - , - ,.. infinity]
I decide as a infinite creator to pick 3 hypothetical units of it {-,-,-}.
Laws, events, space, time, etc exist in this subset.
Then I manifest them.
Time/space/matter/energy/etc unroll or go boom.
Laws are made manifest as well.
The show gets going...
I grab popcorn.
What was the cause? Maybe it provides me glory and satisfaction to do it.
Why do you do what you do? Sometimes you do things simply because it makes you happy and gives you pleasure to do so.
Not saying this is the reason, but it could be and that would be sufficient.