Originally Posted by Skynet

These things take a great amount of intricacy and detail. I will give you the shortened version...

We are literally floating debris - remnants of a single substance, in which matter collided with anti-matter and produced enough radiation inflation to cause The Big Bang (which is said not to have been an actual explosion at all). Could it be that what is beyond the universe is quite simple and effortless, since our universe is finite and possibly birthed from a finite singularity? Imagine the singularity existing in a pure, raw form of energy; something far more basic than electromagnetic energy. According to the laws of nature, there must have been energy to have initially created matter. This one particle has been left without a creator. In order for an object to react, there must be an action bestowed upon it initially, which is what we call “cause and effect”. In order for “cause and effect” to exist, a force of energy must act upon something. If no other matter, light, time had begun until the very moment inflation set in, that only leaves pure energy as an evident and probable cause for everything. We know that energy cannot be destroyed, but it is interchangeable. Thus, it could be safe to assume that the universe was created by a cosmic progression of pure, raw energy building up, and (an energy progression, so to speak) which began over eons generating matter until the moment anti-matter collided with matter. Then light, energy and heat ignited radiation inflation, caused the cosmic microwave of the universe. There are still radiation waves present in the universe to this day. This progression coupled with the theory of a singularity follows the pattern of the creation of all life on Earth (Abiogenisis), as well as the universe and everything contained within it. For example, everything in the universe is birthed infinitesimally small. The sun started out as such until a massive radiation supernova caused an immense explosion; thus creating the solar system. Singularity itself was only the size of an atom.

Now, given the fact that energy is responsible for all creation, this means that energy initially created everything, including other forms of energy, since it has always been present without a beginning, and it has no end - making it infinite. Additionally, since infinite regression (unbounded existence of energy) is the opposite of finite progression (the universe) and we know everything exists with an opposite (for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction); it could be safe to assume that energy has been around eternally. Is it possible that outside of the known universe, there is infinite existence of a simple form of raw energy which we have not yet (or may never) discover...