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Originally Posted by Waves
^Would it be fair to say that "anything which exists within our physical universe is subject to having a beginning?"
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I don't know.
If the universe is indeed infinitely old then it's plausible to say that the matter inside it is infinitely old as well. But then, I don't even know if a container is a good way of describing the universe.
To be fair to everyone else, I have to put forth that I've argued much more passionately for a certain viewpoint than I ever intended to. Frankly, I'm not entirely sure how we got here and that suits me just fine. The most rational explanation, in my view, is that we're a product of many millions of years of slow, subtle changes and that the universe is cyclic, with no beginning or end.