Off-Topic Forum

how do we now that we exist? we could all be ghosts of a planet doomed to die infinate times over and over again. And what is your perception of reality? Something that has ever existed is real to you? well what about the future. the future doesn't exist until the time we live in comes with the set time that we haven't experienced yet. and something from the past can't exist fully because it has changed, in the largest or tiniest molecular way, and that we can never go back into it. perhaps there is no past and only the present, the future doesn't exist until we come to it, and the past seems like moments that we pasted, but is just a state of being for all the space and matter in the universe. or because it never had existed. We can't go back in time or forward into it. We can only live in the set period we are in which is pulling us as we come closer to our innevitable doom. Is our perception of time/reality real? we exist in one set point in time moving forward according to our understanding of time. How can we judge reality if our view is trapped in these digits representing our way of knowing what moment we live in during the coarse of an earth day. What if .  . . im just kiddin ya that would suck if giantbomb didn't exist i don't knowwhat i was rambling on about lol

@Illmatic said:

" @SmugDarkLoser said:

" @Termite said:

"@Hailinel said:

" Trying to give a reason as to why existence exists is a pretty tall order.  It's hard to say that there could ever be truly "nothing", because even if the vastness of space was devoid of planets, stars, and galaxies, there would still be the vastness of space itself.  How can something like that not exist? "

Is there a solid boundary between the ends of our universe and...well...whatever is OUTSIDE of it? The universe is constantly expanding, but what is it expanding into? Is there anything outside the universe? GAH, these are questions that cannot yet really be answered. "

Well actually, you're confused.  When people say that, they mean the galaxies are all moving away from each other.  Think about as if the space is a bowl of infinity, while the galaxies are just cheerios going towards the edge of the endless bowls. "

Yes, but to move away from each other, there needs to be something to move into as well. I can't move my body without leaving one space and entering another. I don't leave this space and enter nothingness when I step away from this computer or even move my fingers to the next key. There is always something there. What he's getting at is in a world that is bounded by limits (walls, floors, atmosphere, gravity, etc.) what bounds the universe? And if something bounds the universe, what is outside that bound as it expands? "

The reason why the logic of "there needs to be something to move into" usually works is because we are normally discussing things that are still within reality. That which is outside the universe however lacks time or space, and thus really nothing can exist outside of the universe. If you were to teleport past the edge of the universe as we know it, you'd be stuck in a purgatorial state since you wouldn't actually be there due to the lack of space and even if you were you wouldn't sense anything because there is no time.We live inside reality, and are bound to its rules, but it doesn't mean that we can always apply logic that works in reality (there always must be something to move into) to something outside of it.

@SmugDarkLoser: Then you shouldn't be writing that post up there.And i shouldn't be posting this reply.


Dude,if universe didn't exist,they're just wouldn't be anything.No darkness,no....wait,if theres no colors,what color will it be when the universe....

Seriously,nevermind.

It would surely be impossible for 'nothing' to not exist-if the universe didn't exist 'nothing' would be there in its place. That's the way things work, don't fuck with my head anymore.

Philosophical questions really do fail.  The OP must've been high while starting this :^P

Answer...If the universe didn't exist, neither would you so what's the point in wondering what if.