What if there were nothing instead of something? It is a frightening thought, if one truly considers it: there being a vacuum from everlasting to everlasting, where not ever was, and not ever could be. If you are a believer, that there had been no God to set things in motion at the beginning of beginnings; if you are not, that there had been no superhot pinprick of energy that "Bang! " and here was the universe. What if? For in my thinking, there would not have been any oblivion being, in the nil of the all, wondering, what if there were something instead of nothing? One considers that the true horror of it would not be that all things should end, for that we can imagine — but there had never been a beginning, and there never would be: that would be the incomprehensible: to think there be a blind man, and take away the man to leave only the blindness.
