Quote (stacked @ Fri, May 15 2009, 01:24am)
It did not come, it has always existed. This is not just religious BS either.
Also due to the fact the 3D universe is mathematically infinite in all directions, therefore there is an infinite amount of matter/mass/energy.
Ehm thats wrong. There may be no bounds to space time (goes unto infinity), but it has been proved that there is a specific amount of mass in the universe.
There are a couple proofs that prove that statement wrong, the first and easiest is -- when you look into the night sky, why do you see lots of empty space? If the universe had an infinite amount of matter, it means there would be an infinite amount of stars and therefore you should not be able to see anything but a blanket of stars in the night sky. In fact there should be no night time, the sky would still be white!.
Secondly, if there was an infinite amount of matter in the universe, there would be an infinite amount of gravity acting on each object and thus everything would collapse back to the center in an instant.
But I support the theory that the universe is, was and will always be. No beginning and no end -- it may be a hard concept for us to grasp, but thats because we are finite creatures and everything in our life is finite indeed. But perhaps there is also an infinite, and perhaps there was never a time = 0.