Why is there something and not nothing?

Something instead of nothing?

Why is there something instead of nothing? The interesting conclusion of this ultimate puzzle is that, we can be sure of, it that "at least something exists." There is a Universe, we see people, and things, and light, and while we may debate what it means, how it came into being, and how it works, we can be sure that there is at least `something'.


Many physicists search for the most elementary laws of physics, and believe that a law is more likely to be true, when it is simpler, more elementary. Some think that at some moment, humans will understand how the Universe and everything works, and, even more, that we find out why the Universe is necessarily as it is. I cannot believe that, indeed, I believe humans cannot ever give a satisfactory or final answer to this ultimate of all questions. Why is there something instead of nothing?

With nothing, I mean the un-existence of everything. No people, no earth, no milky way, no universe, no laws of nature, no space, no time a total non-existence of everything. A mind-boggling, brain-, brain-numbing and brain- twisting overwhelming concept, terrifying, frightening, too awful to contemplate and impossible think about, without going insane and totally beyond understanding of any human genius.

Making a mathematical model of nothing is actually easy. (Take an empty set, with no operations on it, and nothing else.) Nevertheless, one thing we can be sure of: this nothing is not correct: we do not have “nothing”, but definite and absolutely do indeed have ‘something’. This shows that the simplest model is not always the correct one. The universe is almost infinitely complex and to me this points to the simple logic that it is the creation by an infinite, intelligent power. Nothing is the very most basic of all concepts and if there were nothing, there would be no creator, of course.

Some people may argue that the universe was created in the Big Bang ( but whom and what pressed the button of the big bang in the first place, so to speak?) , and that positive matter and positive energy are actually negated by the simultaneous creation of negative matter and negative energy. However, this doesn't answer the other question, where do matter, energy and laws of physics then come from in the first place?

Does this question have an answer? If something exists because it either was a modification of something or else, Something or Somebody else created it, then what caused that to exist? It seems that our logic is unable to deal with the question; indeed, I think the question shows there is a limit to our understanding of things by the very best minds of the human race. There are simply mysteries out there that will never ever be solved by mere mortal man. You see the universe has a strange Goldie locks condition about it, i.e., it cannot be too hot, or too cold etc, etc, etc, but it has to be just absolutely correct, precise and right or life would not have come into existence and we would not be around to contemplate, debate or dialogue on this ultimate enigma. We would not exist. Life hangs on and depends on this knife- edge of harmonies conditions that have to be sustained over countless billions of years, for us to have come into existence and continue to exist. Makes one think, does it not

 

God.

 

oh of course. Why didn't I think of that. that explains EVERYTHING.

 

Maybe theres more that doesnt exist than does exist. We just don't know it.

 

wow, you write all that? awesome i love that kind of stuff. i personally believe that eventually when humans create a time machine we will go back in time and we will cause everything to happen. thats what i think cuz i know someone will be dumb enough to (despite the movies where one small difference alters the future greatly) go back in time to "know" what happened and why and by doing so will do something to create everything. i just hope they dont know this or theyll probably be so nervous theyll fuck up horribly and then "poof". or maybe its like a cd on "repeat all" and everything has happened millions of times before and thats why we have deja vu. i know this has little to do with your post but i tend to ramble about my crazy theories, hope you enjoyed it though. plus, if you look at everything, everything spins in a circle. the electrons around the nucleus of an atom, moons around planets, planets around stars, i believe (but do not know) that solar systems orbit a center of a galaxy (hence the spiral like appearance) and all galaxies orbit the center of the universe (if there is one, i dont know) it makes sense to me. if you have proof that im wrong please let me know.

 

Well, as far as I know, nothing simply isn't there. It's a void. You can't "be" in nothing, because you'd have to be something to be.

Oh yeah, that & God. Heh.

 

I can imagine anything not to exist. But i can't think of no space. Yeah, human minds have their limits.

 

There is never 'nothing' as we know it. Even 'nothing' is something, is it not?

 

when ever this universe looses conciouness there will be nothing my theory is there is another realm outside of this one and it all ties together with life and the higher power

 

something exists because their is nothing and nothing exists because their is something the two are not independant of each other but co dependant. duality is both existent and non existent it all depends on where,who,what your percieving it from. when a flame is extinguished is the light giving in to darkness or is darkness consuming the light the answer is niether but only because it is both.

 

There is no sufficient reason, in Leibniz's sense. Leibniz couldn't even come up with a sufficient reason for rectilinear motion, although, of course, he still tried. There is no sufficient reason for the origins of life, although the argument from irredicible complexity relies on some bad metaphysics to derive one. Finally, there is no sufficient reason for why there is something rather than nothing, that old Aristotelian problem. The big bang is no solution. One can ask what caused it. Then, we get into the cosmological argument, essentially the same bad metaphysics as in the argument from irreducible complexity. All sciences have a terminal point where the phenomena ends, including metaphysics, in Kant's sense. There is no explanation beyond it, no sufficient reason for it.

FYI, you can still derive the rules of inference from the empty set, but this is a empty formalism, whereas I think you were talking about content.

 

i wonder is their even an end to possible existence could their be universes or diminsions outside or hidden within this one where all the laws of physics and everything weve come to know as reality is entirely twisted or opposite from this one could such places contain life. ive once heard their is a philosophy that if it is possible to think of or if it could exist then it does exist somewhere. it all brings me back to that william blake line "if the doors of perception....." i mean if space and time are infinite and also conscious, subconscious, unconscious perception why couldnt it be possible. we simply would not be able to percieve of it all right now in our current state of being. i think this is somewhat like the multiple histories theory but im not as well read as i should be. but seriously if we cant explain what existed before the big bang how the fuck can we even speculate, the possibilities are infinite and if infinity exists it must, most definately exist infinitely this could all be nothing more than one ultimate conscious infinite being creating and destroying itself infinitely for the hell of it and we would all be a small part of it, one living breathing universe feeling itself up infinitely through the breaking up of its own pure consciousness creating ego to try to experience its infinite self, in this case their would be no real line between conscious perception and unconscious perception. all of existence would just be differing, fading degrees of subconcsious which would explain how individual selfs come from an infinite whole of existence. however if their was no definate physical reality and it was all just fluctuating,dividing, multiplying,combining perceptions of the same thing, well then wat would actually be being percieved.............idk maybe im talking out of my ass and none of this shit we call existence never really existed in the first place we all just thought it did.... i think its maybe a little bit of both tho plus a lot more that is beyond my understanding at the moment... i just love thinking about it tho

 

Something and nothing are constructs of the human mind, subject to interpretation. It comes down to definitions and symantics.

Our experiences lead us to believe that everything is tangible and real, when all we have is our own stream of consciousness. Physical phenomena, like Newton's laws for example, are nothing more than models with which we measure that which we consider to be concrete, yet it's possible everything we perceive is really nothing, vapor, an illusion embedded in our stream of consiousness, merely a dream.

 

i know of no such end or limits to diversity, only that things work a certain way in THIS universe, and human society and human perceptions are no where near a begining and end of even that either, not even more then the very tineyest fraction of it.

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