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1. bionhoward · 1789621604 · focus · HN ↗

   I feel cosmology ought to grapple more with, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” That question and this question are certainly linked. If expansion is a mirror of collapse, how do we get from some initial nothingness to a point where there is something capable of collapsing? Starting with an infinite amount of stuff everywhere feels like cheating.

   1. cgio · 1789626213 · focus · HN ↗

      But that’s cosmogony, not cosmology. Cosmology can just explore the cosmos that is there not having to worry about why it came to be. If there’s a causality of causality, then what’s the cause of itself.

      1. bionhoward · 1790387823 · focus · HN ↗

         huh, i never heard of cosmogony, that's cool, thank you

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