10th March 2003, 1:38 AM
To me, I find it a curiosity as to why the universe exists at all. I won't get into us just defining it, since that's a "duh" but even without us to classify it all, it still exists as something without us. Why does it exist, and why is the universe programmed the way it is, instead of other possible minor, or major, alterations? One may say "The universe just exists", but that's pretty similar to the statement "God just exists", in that it's without any real explanation. The way I phrased that, it would seem occam's razor favors the former, which is something I'm working with.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)