Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Well if you agree with the principle of the law of conservation of energy then it's reasonable to assume that energy was always present in some form, and simply coalesced or cataclysm[ed] at some point or another (the big bang being a result of that) and changed form into what we recognize today as subatomic matter.

I personally don't believe there was nothing, then something. It's easier for me to believe that energy itself, in a primal form, is a natural state of existence in all contexts, in the same sense that we tend to think of nothingness as being a natural state of existence without an influencing factor. If this is the case, there would be no need for it to have been created... there would only have been a need for it to have changed form.

The force that could have caused that change would then be the real question. I would tend to just chalk it up to potential given enough time.



Adding to this, when people speak about the outer boundaries of the universe, I wouldn't think it so hard to believe that it's simply the zone where this change is still happening further and wider into an infinite area of primal energy, which would pretty much be creating more space for our universe to expand into.