TIME AND NOTHINGNESS: Re-visiting the Philosopher’s Prime Question...
In man’s ultimate quest for wisdom, a constant puzzle which has remained unsolved has been ‘the origin of the world’, or rather put in a narrower sense, ‘the beginning of humanity’. For knowledge sake therefore, many high profile and backyard debates, these in an equally infinite proportions, have come and gone. The question of ‘Origin’, instead of answering one question, has surprisingly led to too many which as of now have proved too much for even the modern man. One of those questions is the age-long philosopher’s mind-aching problem: Why is there Something instead of Nothing? The greatest and the most enlightened minds in history have attempted this question, and as well come up, not with the answer(s), but with more puzzles which may or may not lead to the answer. In all these, the entity called Time takes it all; Time has remained constant and its essence unaffected and unchanged. The bodies of the first proponents of this question (which I will refer here as the Fundamental...