And that is where my disappointment lies, John.

Brain-wise, you are an extremely well-gifted person, very articulate, and you are showing me in about everything you write/respond that you are a good structural thinker.

So, I do not understand how you end up on the road that everyone takes that ends with a sign saying "It's all a mystery, Folks!" and then turns back, not investigating that road still going further back in time.

You never thought about the prior state, and how the prior state caused the materialized reality to come into being.

You always think with the knowledge about matter in mind, and never, or so it does seem like, ever did you venture behind the sign on the road.

1 + x = 1

The x is the moment of change, and you never went any further back than the equal sign and saw the mysterious x, halting you in your movement, never considering how we live in the result and not the original.

The x is found before the equal sign for a very good reason. The x was produced at the end of the prior state, and not at the beginning of the current state of the universe.

Your behavior in that moment of not going further is very religious of you, not scientific at all.

You stopped with saying "God did it" and you did not investigate how God did it, and if God came out of it unscathed. Of course God not come out of it unscathed. The original God and the current God are not identical.

So, that is my disappointment, John. At some point in your thinking, you are not a scientist but a monotheistic believer. You are still thinking inside the box only, unaware of the actual box.

P.S. I had seen your article and left you a comment a while ago. You are a good thinker.