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>I get overwhelmed by the thought of how there's something instead of nothing.
This is what made me stop believing in religion and the big bang. I believe the universe always existed and that it will continuously exist infinitely. Currently, we are in the beginning stages of a universe where expansion happens while the last big bang cools down. The long standing theory is that this universe will continuously expand until everything is cold or the very fabric of space rips apart.
This is incorrect. Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Hawking proved black holes turn matter into energy. Eventually, the universe will begin to heat up again from these black holes and cause deflation. So much compression and heat will cause the next big bang, turning energy back into matter.
This has happened infinitely and will continue to happen infinitely. Every possibility within the laws of physics has occured and will continue to occur infinitely. We have been here posting on the schizo board infinitely, and will continue to post here infinitely. It will take an astronomical amount of cycles to be here again, but we will. We are concious versions of the universe observing itself. This is quantum immortality.
If you want to research this I would look up Roger Penrose's cyclic universe theory