< You are implying that there has always been something. > > No I&apos;m not. There was no time for something to "always" be in. > > I keep saying this, but everyone is too set in their ways > to change their ways of thinking about time. > Actually St Augustine had the right idea on this.-Simon Blackburn (a philosopher) asked an interesting question why is nothing our default position?-But according to some hypotheses ... if we add up the energy in the universe it comes to zero. And interesting position I think.