The Beginning

Imagine a void universe -- nothing but empty space reaching out forever. And pretend that only you are in it. Place something into your imagined universe -- something simple such as a steel ball. This is easy to imagine, but if you had to make this item to get it into your universe, where would you get the materials for it? Could you just pop them into being? The creation of something from nothing can happen in one's mind, but can it happen really?

> Why do you and I live?
> Why are we here in this universe?
> How did the universe come into being?
> What makes the universe behave as it does?

In order to explain "creation" we must accept at least something as given. If a god or an "all creator" placed everything into the universe then we are accepting this god as a being already given. This still does not answer our question of how everything else came to be. Surely, such a god could not have obtained the material within the universe from nowhere. The idea of a "creator being" leaves us with more questions to answer than we started with. For example: Where did this god come from? What is he, her, or it made of? Did he have a beginning? Why does he exist. These are the same questions we are asking about the universe itself. All we have done is transfer our questions regarding the universe to questions regarding a creator-god. Since we are not answering the questions we started out to with the concept of a god, we may as well include the god as just another entity to be explained along with all the rest of the universe.
When I use the word "universe" I really mean the totality of existence. This includes beyond the observable universe in distance and in other limitations of observation. It includes the three spatial dimensions, the dimension of time and any other proposed dimensions. This includes other "time universes" and all that's on the "other side" of black holes. Also included are energy, gods, spirits, souls, ghosts, empty space, and everything imaginable or real. I will elaborate on the imaginable later, but, for now lets include everything.

COSMOSIS'S FIRST PROFUNDITY:
If the entire universe was once nothing but empty space then there would have been nothing else either -- no waves, no fields, no spirits, no beings, no anything. This must be true -- empty space cannot possibly interact with empty space. There is nothing there to interact with!

A wave, for instance, must be generated from or associated with something that exists that is other than empty space. The other-than-empty-space that is involved in generating a wave must either exist or have had to exist to enable the wave's creation. If it no longer exist (and the wave does) then the wave must also travel in a medium other than empty space.
The same applies to the imagined. Without there being an entity doing the imagining, the imagined cannot even be imagined.

I would like us to start with a completely empty universe. From this point I would like to compile a list of qualities or principals (that logically we are draw to conclude by relying on our power to reason) that comprise an explanation of the totality of existence and its behavior. This list would be the minimum qualities or principles of the universe that we would just have to accept as given. Obviously we have to accept something as given because the universe is not nothing but empty space.

Let me further describe our starting point -- a blank universe. Nothing at all exist in it, not even us -- but somehow we are watching. This imagined universe is dark (totally without light), totally without energy and contains no particles of any size or nature. It is a vacuum to the extreme meaning of the word, and without walls. It has no "coexisting universe" that contain something. This definition of "nothingness" is actually empty space extending from whatever observation point we choose, to infinity is Euclidean straight lines in all directions.

During this explanation I wish to leave nothing assumed without stating so. An axiom is "a self-evident proposition accepted as true without proof".