| Re: With all the erudition of a drunken 15 year old......
I'm an armchair physicist but it's worth pointing out here that when you are talking about 'nothing' you are talking about there being no matter. The universe is the domain of matter but it is also home to other, very peculiar things which are hard to define or conceptualise - such as electromagnetic radiation, forces and 'energy' (whatever the fuck that is). The hypothesised 'big-bang' was the birth of matter, nobody says that before that there was NOTHING in the ABSOLUTE sense of the word but perhaps there were 'things' which can be defined only using the strange concepts of 'forces' and 'energy' and perhaps this utterly unimaginable environment is what lies outside the universe (the universe being defined, for these purposes, as the region containing matter). The thing that bends my head round and snaps it off then plays basketball with it before eating my brain, turding it out and setting fire to the turd is the fact that in this environment things like 'time' don't necessarily have to exist so we actually can't talk about 'before' the big bang because 'before' the big bang the concepts like 'before', 'after', 'now', 'then' may be absolutley irrelevant. If I was a 1950s American teenager I'd say "sheesh!".
Anyway, let's talk about Eastenders or Big Brother. I see Anthony won and he blah blah blah blah blah blah. | 
