universe?

To put it bluntly, that first something (if by which we mean the first physical something) was the Big Bang. Pretty much everyone can agree on that part. As to the broader question of why that gained traction and became the universe? Science’s answer is a bit of a non-answer, as they attribute it to luck. Remember the lottery analogy we made in this chapter? Yes. That amount of crazy luck.

Birnbaum’s Potentialism, by contrast, gives us a perfectly clear answer. If the Big Bang wouldn’t have gained traction and created a lasting, habitable universe, then it wouldn’t have bothered to make it happen.

That it would grow on and gain in complexity was a prerequisite for Q4P to have gone to the trouble of making things happen in the first place.

So, to answer the question, specifically, how did ‘something’ lead to the universe? Because Extraordinariation demanded that it did.

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