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Without deleting my post, seriously, how on earth did you become a moderator? You seem not to have read the first chapter of OPAR.

Existence exists, therefore always has and always will. The universe is everything that exists as a whole. The universe, reality, existence, approximately, is eternal, there is no beginning, no end. What could be here before there was something here? Well that would mean there was something there, and so on. You cannot be called upon to prove a negative, and if someone walks into the room and says there's a God waiting for me in the 4th dimension prove that there isn't, all you have to say is 'prove that there is' -- the onus of proof rests on those who make the positive assertion. To be called upon to prove another universe is to be called upon to prove a negative. We're dealing with existence and everything it implies using the art of non-contradictory identification. Therefore, the philosophical premise of existence exists comes first, and even if the science of physics were unable to validate that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed it would not matter -- philosophical absolutes come before science and at best science lags behind and eventually demonstrates such absolute truths.

Not only agree, but practice and advocate Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Only then could one legitimately be considered an Objectivist.

Existence exists, to be is to be something, to possess identity, causality is a corollary of identity, i.e.: the law of identity states that an entity will have a certain kind of nature under a given set of circumstances and will have no other nature under those circumstances. Time is the attribute of causation called sequentiality. Causation is a relationship between an entity and an event - specifically it is the relationship that identifies that a given event must be preceded by the motion of an entity which gave rise to it. Time is the attribute of this relationship that identifies that effects follow from causes in a particular sequence. Space is unoccupied volume, i.e.: between two buildings. The philosophical premise of metaphysical objectivism is true, and has been validated I'd argue far before the the detonation of the atomic bomb, but for the physical validation of the already discovered philosophical premise of metaphysical objectivism I suggest you watch the detonation of the atomic bomb and look at the physics behind it. Matter and energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The universe is finite but measurement does not apply to the universe, which, by definition, is everything that exists as a whole.