Romansh: First cause? The instability of nothing?-You have followed what I consider as strange line of reasoning. If it is truly nothing, and here I am excluding virtual quantum activity, for quantum perturbations are 'something', then nothing can not be stable or unstable, for nothing can do nothing. Shades of Richard Carrier and Vic Stenger. -Carrier interview:- http://www.thebestschools.org/blog/2011/12/31/richard-carrier-interview/ -In it he says nothing cannot be stopped from doing something! To me that is unbelieveable hogwash.