by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: May 16, 2008   Last Updated: June 09, 2008

Quantum cosmology makes uncertainty a macro-physical element. The Universe might have just appeared out of nothing at any time and may disappear equally quickly. Universes may have all possible existence lines as well as quantum particles or not. This universe may have popped into existence out of nothing through quantum tunneling and fade out in a similar episode-yet could it have recurred infinitely as Nietzsche believed?

Simple Darwinism formed the intellectual vanguard of biological sciences in Nietzsche's day-a simplistic interpretation of scripture based on a primitive evolution paradigm within a primitive cosmology set the trigger back for Nietzsche's eventual choice to pull the trigger on faith and declare that god is 'dead'. Though time may be an element of space not apart from it that occurs in a phenomenal actualization of quantum cosmology perhaps with no definite past and an uncertain time border in the future such ideas did not matter to the 'philosopher of the eternal recurrence' who believed that the entire universe recurred exactly as it is infinitely without alterity (a liberal derivative use of the term).

One troubled, restless night taking a stroll along the shore of Lake Lucerne on the border of France and Switzerland the German philosopher Fredrick Nietzsche had a remarkable insight of the eternal recurrence of the Universe. Since youth he had walked along the shores of the lake and later stayed at his musical friend Wagner's villa. The woods of the region were a developmental place for a the fatherless youth. Nietzsche came to a boulder at a fork in the trail and kicked engendering the insight that he had done that act forever in a limitless series of recurrences of the very Universe exactly as it is. 'The philosopher of the eternal recurrence' was born at that moment of awakening when he realized the absolute futility of life; a life that was without a God to rewind it he believed, in a pre-determined inflexible repeat for all of eternity. Nietzsche would claim later that 'god is dead'. Sartre would call the act, I think, the myth of Sisyphus.

Nietzsche's own father died when he was five years old of an affliction labeled 'softening of the brain' meaning he was raised by mother and sisters. Freddy would go on to develop syphilis and dementia from a tragic disease weakness and end his philosophical career hugging the neck of a strange horse in a street in Switzerland before collapsing to the ground. His last ten years were spent in the

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