At the beginning of the 21st century, there is sufficient knowledge to complete the by now almost eternal cycle. But who is in a position to set the course?   It is in the very nature of the matter that there can be no well-trodden path for a possibility that has never existed before. Nor does it truly fall within anyone's competence or sphere of responsibility. There is no urgent need for immediate action either. Or should we continue this game—which, in reality, is not a game at all—for a few more generations, or perhaps many more? It is not an easy decision. The lack of courage of the present generation will probably prevent any decision from being made anyway. We will likely have to wait for the next generation. If Aristarchus of Samos, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton had not been courageous enough to publish their discoveries in defiance of the prevailing worldview, the Sun would still be revolving around the Earth today. If our ancestors and those who followed them had been too afraid to climb down from the trees, we might still be living in them today. We owe every great achievement of humanity to those who had the courage to challenge the status quo. Cowards have never changed the world. As always, exceptions prove the rule.   A well-known quote by Max Planck, admittedly a highly simplified one that should not be taken as universally true, reads: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Either way, somehow or other, at some point, the sun will rise

Why is there actually something and not just nothing? This question is the oldest and most fundamental question that has ever existed. To answer this question, you have to start from the very beginning. The very beginning is where the question no longer arises: "What was there before?" ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is the only term that no longer raises the question: "What was there before?" Absolutely nothing has never existed, because if there had ever been absolutely nothing, it would have always stayed that way. Because in absolute nothingness there would of course have been no possibility that this state would ever change, because even the slightest possibility would have been more than absolutely nothing. SOMETHING has therefore always been there, because if this SOMETHING had come into being, there would have been absolutely (without exception) nothing before its creation and it would have always stayed that way.     However, why hasn't there been nothing without exception     and why did it not remain so? continue: 2kugel.com

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