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> We have a simple to state problem. There was nothing, then there was something.

Natural language is woefully inadequate to express these issues, but believe it is a mistake to state the problem like this. There can be no concept of “before” if there is a T0. Perhaps the “why is there something rather than nothing?” version comes closer to what we are asking.

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to which the current best though unsatisfactory answer is “because!”

Hawking’s history of time actually anwsers this question with „we don’t know and don’t have any information from before big bang we can access to use in research”.

which means that science then states that T-1 "We have absolutely noe clue and we will never have one"

So a spaghetti god monster could have created it? It could but you would never be able to prove it.

Not quite. There is still the possibility that at some point in the future we will be able to figure it out unless it can be proven that it is impossible.

The only observation is that currently we don't know. Could it be the spaghetti god monster? Maybe. Maybe not. We simply can't tell at the moment.

There are things we don't know the answer to. We just have to keep looking.

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