ARGUMENT: MATTER ONLY EXISTS IN PART OR PARTS OF INFINITE SPACE.
CASE[1]: FROM CAUSE WITHIN MATTER
IN LIGHT OF THE DOCTRINE THAT ALL THINGS HAVE CAUSES, IT IS OBVIOUS, IN THIS CASE,THAT THE CAUSE COMES FIRST AND THE EFFECT[MATTER] FOLLOWS. THIS WOULD MEAN THE CAUSE EXISTING IN [VOID] INFINITE SPACE WHICH IS AN ABSURDITY. IF A CAUSE CAN EMERGE OUT OF A VOID INFINITE SPACE THEN, CAUSES MUST BE ABLE TO EMERGE EVERYWHERE IN VOID INFINITE SPACE RESULTING IN ENSUING MATTER ALSO BEING EVERYWHERE. THE CASE FAILS.
CASE [2] : FROM CAUSE EX MATTER.
AGAIN, THIS WOULD MEAN THE CAUSE EXISTED IN A VOID INFINITE SPACE. FOR THE SAME REASON ABOVE. THE CASE FAILS.
CASE [3]; FROM A SINGLE VOLUME [MASS] OF ETERNAL MATTER OF `NO CAUSE`.
A SINGULAR MASS OF MATTER OF RESTRICTED DIMENSIONS NEEDS TO BE OF A CONSTANT SIZE IF IT IS TO BE ETERNAL, OTHERWISE, A PERSISTENT OVERALL CONTRACTION OR EXPANSION SUGGESTS A CAUSE AS TO THE EXISTENCE OF THE MATTER THUS MAKING THE MATTER NON-ETERNAL. WHILST THE MASS PERIODICALLY CONTRACTS AND EXPANDS DUE TO THE EBB AND FLOW OF MATTER, THERE MUST BE INFINITE NUMBER OF TIMES WHEN THE TOTAL MATTER IS AT THE CONSTANT SIZE.
TO ACHIEVE THIS CONSTANCY THERE MUST BE SOME INTERNAL OR BUILT-IN ACTION, ONE WHICH IS ETERNAL AND AS SUCH, DOES NOT VIOLATE THE ` NO CAUSE` STIPULATION.
THIS BUILT-IN ACTION REQUIRES THE TOTAL MATTER IN ALL ITS EVOLVING FORMS, CONSOLIDATIONS AND DISINTEGRATIONS TO OPERATE IN SOME ORDERED OR REGULATED WAY IF CONSTANCY IS TO BE PERPETUATED.
BUT MATTER IS FAR FROM ORDERED, INSTEAD BEHAVING IN A HAPHAZARD FASHION PARTICULARLY IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT AS EXEMPLIFIED BY `` THE UNIVERSE... BY ABOUT 0.01 SECOND AFTER THE BEGINNING... CONSISTED OF A SOUP OF MATTER AND RADIATION`` (1) AND `` RANDOM COLLISIONS OVER A FEW MILLION YEARS SEE THESE [DUSTY REFRACTORY MATERIAL] PARTICLES GROW FROM DUST GRAINS TO PEBBLES TO SMALL ASTEROIDS``. (2)
SOUP OF MATTER AND RANDOM COLLISIONS - NOT THE BASIC CONDITIONS REQUIRED FOR CONSTANCY. CLEARLY THE MATTER IS NOT OPERATING IN AN ORDERLY OR REGULATED WAY, AND AS SUCH, THERE IS NO CONSTANCY AND HENCE THE MATTER IS NOT ETERNAL. THE CASE FAILS.
CASE [4]: FROM NUMEROUS ISOLATED MASSES - EACH OF ETERNAL MATTER OF `NO CAUSE`.
ISOLATED MASSES, EACH OF LIMITED DIMENSIONS, OF ETERNAL MATTER POINTS TO A CAUSE AS TO THE ISOLATION ITSELF. INFINITE NUMBER OF THESE ISOLATED MASSES INDICATE A CAUSATIVE PATTERN; SEVERAL ONLY OF THESE MASSES IMPLY A CAUSATIVE RESTRICTION. IN ADDITION, EACH MASS WOULD NEED TO BE OF CONSTANT SIZE, AND AS SUCH, SUBJECT TO THE SAME REBUTTAL AS APPLIED IN THE ABOVE CASE. THE CASE FAILS.
CASE [5}: FROM A SINGLE ETERNALLY [OVERALL] CONTRACTING MASS OF MATTER OF NO CAUSE.
A SINGULAR ETERNALLY [OVERALL] CONTRACTING MASS OF MATTER OF RESTRICTED OR PART RESTRICTED DIMENSIONS SUGGESTS BOTH A CAUSE AS TO THE RESTRICTION [OF DIMENSIONS] AND A CAUSE AS TO THE ETERNAL CONTRACTION ITSELF. AN ETERNALLY CONTRACTING MASS OF MATTER, OF UNRESTRICTED OR INFINITE DIMENSIONS WOULD INDICATE MATTER BEING EVERYWHERE RESULTING IN CONTRACTION BEING AN ABSURDITY, THE CASE FAILS.
CASE [6]: FROM A SINGLE ETERNALLY [OVERALL] EXPANDING MASS OF MATTER OF NO CAUSE.
AN ETERNALLY [OVERALL] EXPANDING MASS OF MATTER OBVIOUSLY, DOES NOT HAVE A BEGINNING. . THIS RULES OUT A [CAUSE RELATED] ZERO MASS AT COMMENCEMENT. TO BE ETERNALLY [OVERALL] EXPANDING, THE MASS , AT ITS MOST LIMITED DIMENSIONS, WOULD NEED TO BE ONE WHICH IS AS CLOSE TO ZERO AS POSSIBLE. SUCH A SCENARIO IS HARDLY OF THAT BROUGHT ABOUT BY SOME CHANCE OCCURRENCE.. ADDITIONALLY, AN ETERNALLY [OVERALL] EXPANDING MASS OF MATTER INDICATES A CAUSE AS TO THE ETERNAL EXPANSION ITSELF. THE CASE FAILS.
CONCLUSION: SINCE EACH OF THE ABOVE CASES FAILED SCRUTINY, THE ARGUMENT THAT MATTER ONLY EXISTS IN PART OR PARTS OF INFINITE SPACE IS PROVED FALSE; AND BY DEDUCTION, MATTER IS THEREFORE UBIQUITOUS AND BECAUSE MATTER EXISTS THROUGH A CAUSE HAS NOT BEEN SUBSTANTIATED , IT FOLLOWS THERE IS NO CAUSE AND THAT MATTER ITSELF IS ETERNAL - MATTER HAS ALWAYS EXISTED. HAVING NO BEGINNING AND HAVING NO END. IN ANY CASE, A MASS OF MATTER OF RESTRICTED DIMENSIONS JUST DOES NOT SIT WITH INFINITY. ACCORDINGLY:
INFINITY = INFINITE [ SPACE AND MATTER]
- A COALESCENCE OF SPACE AND MATTER
GIVEN THE RANDOMNESS BEHAVIOUR OF MATTER, IT IS EXPECTED, THAT WHILE MATTER IS UBIQUITOUS AND ETERNAL IT (MATTER) IS NOT EVENLY SPREAD IN INFINITE SPACE. THIS SUGGESTS THAT MATTER OCCASIONALLY SEGMENTS OR LOCALISES (AND RE-AGGREGATES) INTO CHANGEABLE VOLUMES OF VARIOUS DIMENSIONS, SOME MORE SPARSELY POPULATED WITH MATTER, SOME MORE DENSELY POPULATED, EACH AT VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT (OR RETROGRESSION). [ POSSIBLY, OUR UNIVERSE IS THE PRODUCT OR EVEN THE SOLE PRODUCT OF ONE THE MORE DENSELY POPULATED PRIMEVAL OR DEVELOPING MASSES].
CONTENTMENT FROM VOLTERQUITY [BELIEF]: AS EACH OF OUR LIVES MOVES NEAR TO A CLOSE, WE CAN DERIVE COMFORT FROM THE CONCLUSION THAT MATTER IS BOTH EVERYWHERE IN INFINITE SPACE AND ETERNAL, AND AS SUCH, THE EXPECTATION THAT THE PROCESS WHICH ALLOWED OUR UNIVERSE TO DEVELOP IS RECURRING COUNTLESS TIMES ELSEWHERE IN INFINITE SPACE,AND THAT EARTH-LIKE PLANETS EXIST OR ARE EVOLVING [OR WANING] SUPPORTING EMERGING HUMANITIES IN REGULAR FASHION. THE CHANCES THAT OUR PLANET FORMED IN THE FIRST PLACE MAY BE ASTRONOMICAL, BUT THAT FIGURE IS WAY WAY SHORT OF THAT OF INFINITY.
WE CAN DRAW CONTENTMENT FROM OUR ACHIEVEMENT OF BEING PART OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND WE CAN DRAW CONTENTMENT FROM OUR OPTIMISM IN THE PERPETUAL EXISTENCE OF MANKIND. .
OUR LIVES ARE PART OF AN ETERNAL HUMAN STORY - ONE WITHOUT A BEGINNING AND ONE WITHOUT AN END.
QUESTION:: DO YOU THINK NON-RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE BECOMING MORE ACCEPTABLE IN AUSTRALIA.
AUTHOR: Peter Holland
EMAIL : peterh9142frz@gmail.com
REFERENCES:
(1) Abell1s Exploration of the Universe, 7th edition, David Morrison, Sidney Wolff and Andrew Fraknoi, Saunders College Publishing 1995, p 613
(2) Astronomy - Fifty ideas you really need to know, Giles Sparrow, Quercus Editions Ltd, London, 2016, p 18.
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