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Reality
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I don't see how humans could know the answer to that question.
Which level are you speaking of?
The All that encompasses all
So Absolute Reality? Until I find evidence of a beginning or an end, I will contend that It is.
Silverscale derg
Active Member
The universe is eternal, life comes and goes, the "universe" may be destroyed but think of it like a virtual box. You're running the system on your main system, that's the universe. If it "crashes" for lack of a better world then reality will still exist to all. Sure it will be in the afterlife but still.
Not with a lower case r. Only upper case R is.
Seems to me that means, is energy eternal?
I have a pet hypothesis that spacetime is a property of energy (mass-energy), rather than that energy exists within spacetime.
Be that correct, then 'eternal' would depend on whether energy wears away, collapses into nothingness in some or other fashion, however slowly. (Whereas atomic particles collapse into energy, more or less, however slowly.)
At present we don't think energy does diminish (or gain) in quantity.
But again, still running with my hypothesis, there may be states of energy in which time (a customary ingredient in the concept 'eternal') ceases to exist, or goes backwards, or takes an unfamiliar form, or whatever.
So I offer the answer, if energy is eternal in the sense of continuing through time, in principle without limit, then reality is eternal; and otherwise, no.
PureX
Veteran Member
We can't even determine it's present, let alone it's future.
Sorry, but you can't have that answer.
SabahTheLoner
Master of the Art of Couch Potato Cuddles
The reality now was vastly different from the reality hundreds of years ago. If it’s enteral it evolves rather quickly.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
More like a continuum.