About The Origin of The Universe: How Can Nothingness be Described? Do We Even Have the Vocabulary to Think On this?

The Perched Eye blog is 15 years old,  from 2009 with President Obama's election. Our focus has been eclectic ...  the styles and directions of American politics and culture, with an occasional comment on the impact of new technologies. Our observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.

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This blog post builds on my Medium article (Medium, March 16, 2024), which ponders the renewed scientific and public interest and questions about cosmology, reality, being, and 'Nothingness' (Plato, Copernicus, Nietzsche, Kant. Planck, Heisenberg's Quantum Uncertainty Principle, ...and us-in-the-Peanut Gallery:

Cosmology 02: Before the Big Bang: Was There ‘Nothing’ (a ‘No Thing?’). Are ‘We’ Virtual Shadows, Too? Will Ignoring the Question Make Life Better? (So Many Conundrums These Days!)

Until the 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the public was non-involved (or uninterested) in the question of the origin of the universe.  

From JWST's first feedback observations in 2022, public interest in our universe has skyrocketed. 

The public's interest has now expanded, evolved, and joined the scientific community to ask important questions like:

 'What is our universe, exactly? 

Is our universe 'Real, or Virtual?' 

'What is Reality?'  

 Is our universe bounded, or is it infinite?' 

'Is there only 'our' universe, or are there multiple universes?' 

More questions are appearing as humanity's vocabulary evolves in nuance following the lead of our technological advances.