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Subject: Re: Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:29:09 -0700
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On 04/04/2025 10:46 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>> Stephen Hawking once asked:
>>
>> Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
>>
>> If Stephen Hawking would like an answer
>> to that question, has he ever consider
>> asking a woman that question?
>>
>> I don't mean a woman scientist..
>>
>> i mean, just any woman.
>>
>> Where did Stephen Hawking get the idea he is
>> entitled to know the answer?
>>
>> Is he Moses?
>
> I was under the impression that Stephen Hawking  was an atheist.
>
> But he refers to the universe as a person, a being, a self that feels
> "bother"..
>
>
> Why is Stephen Hawking soooo bothered by a bothered universe?
>
>
> Mother Nature?
>
>
> Is something bothering here?
>
>
>
>
> Yous science guys make no sense...
>
>
>
>
>

That's the old "fundamental question of metaphysics",
that books like Genesis and John intend to entail,
as for a space-time and a language to ponder it,
then as with regards to why thusly a sort of
strong mathematical platonism and strong logicist positivism,
make for a sort of strong mathematical universe hypothesis,
it's called the fundamental question of metaphysics,
and the philosophy of physics then is meant to reflect
on "Foundations", which are a sort of altogether.

It's sort of like Born's "Restless Universe", about
some "root probabilistic flaw" in otherwise an empty
void or static universe, what makes for a theory that's
a physics that's a sum-of-histories sum-of-potentials
with least-action and least gradient, of which there's
a science that happens to always concur, that any sort
of reasonably apt reasoning agent can sort of establish
as via a "Principle of Sufficient, and Thorough, Reason",
the reason the rationality the natural the real,
that it's not much like Born's "Restless Universe",
which is more of a quantum theorist's lament the
indeterminism, that may be a simple enough consequence
of the deliberation and contemplation of a mathematical
universe, which is a continuum mechanics again, and
a heno-theory, with an ideal physics, and an analytical physics.