One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe. But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.