The First Cause

Dennis Gaskill aka "Boogie Jack" One of the commonly accepted universal principles is that something can't come from nothing. You just can't take "nothing" and make "something" from it. That's pretty obvious, it only takes common sense to understand that.

Another accepted universal principle is that for every action there is equal and opposite reaction. That's the scientific way of describing the law of cause and effect. When something happens (the effect), something had to make it happen (the cause). In truth, an effect could be the result of several causes, but there does always have to be at least one cause if there is an effect.

While the number of causes and effects that occur each day are incalculable, we can rely on understanding the principle of cause of effect to reach a mind-boggling conclusion. Let your imagination roam free as we begin exploring...

Let's suppose we have the most astonishing computer in the universe, one that can trace back every effect to its cause. As our computer begins tracing, trillions of mundane causes and effects are traced. As our computer continues, important information begins to surface. The history of man on earth would be traced back to its origin. Going farther back, we'd learn the causes that effected the formation of the earth and our solar system.

Now imagine this...our super computer has finally traced back all effects to their causes until it has reached the first effect. We're at a point in time now before even the oldest stars and galaxies were formed. We are at the threshold of the very first effect that occurred in the history of the universe!

There is only one more calculation for our computer to make - what was the cause of the first effect? Remember, something can't come from nothing, and the first cause cannot have been an effect of another cause or it wouldn't be the first cause, so the first cause would have to have always been in existance. The first cause, whatever that may be, would have to be eternal to exist at all.

Mind-boggling, isn't it?