HOW is it that "something" exists instead of "nothing"?

Question

It seems that nothing does not exist. How did "something" come to be?

oh come on, none of this "god" fairy tale stuff.

other than that, you answers seem to be very thoughtful. you guys are great.

Answer 1

nothing exists also, as void

Answer 2

You're assuming that nothing should exist by default because you've noticed that all objects in reality start out as "nothing". On the surface, this appears to be a perfectly rational induction if you accept that all reason is based on experience (which I do- some philosophers would claim that "a priori knowledge" makes this induction irrational, although many modern thinkers reject that particular notion)

I would, however, like to submit something that you may have missed: To predict the past of any anything, you must use either data relating to that thing's behavior, or the behavior of similar things (with probability decreasing according to exactly how different the other thing is). So far, so good- all of existence can be seemingly be called an "object", and since all "objects" start as nothing, it seems logical that the universe would as well. However, it seems to me (and some may dispute this) that for something to be similar in a logical context, it must not just conform to an arbitrary set of characteristics (such as "a pattern of matter and energy" for "object"), but rather, every known characteristic must be taken into account. Now, objects within the universe all have certain characteristics in common that the universe as a whole lacks- for instance, they all interact with other objects, they all can cease to exist without the things that make them up ceasing to exist, and, most relevantly, they all come into existence through the combination of other objects (which I'm sure could be proven is ths source of the fact that objects start out as "nothing", with more complex logic). So, given this, I'd say that "all of existence" is so dissimilar from "objects within existence" that any data relating to the latter shouldn't be logically applied to the former.

Given time, I think I could come up with a much more stable formal argument for this, but that's all I have for tonight.

Answer 3

One of the greatest debates of all times! The world would way exactly what it did when there were no buildings or before any manmade structure; this is due to the fact that everything has been made from nothing; all things here on earth are made from the original dirt and materials from the earth; which means that nothing really exists! Good question

Answer 4

How do you know nothing ever existed?

Personally, I believe we are too bold to be open minded about anything. Too unintelligent?

Not at all.

Of course, we are too intelligent to know we are unintelligent enough not to know nothing existed in the first place.

So if nothing existed in the first place, would the nothingness of nothing be of something of anything?

Nothing is an adjective. The nothing is an adjective or a noun depending on its context. The nothing of nothing is describing the something.. or describing the described. This cannot exist or can it? No.. it can, but we're not up to believing that it can because we're too intelligent to know we're not unintelligent enough for the nothingness to be just nothing.

Even a force from outer space is not "nothing." It's obvious it's something. But we're not unintelligent to know that it's not nothing... We're just too unintelligent to know that we're not intelligent enough to know theres' something existing within the nothingness of a nothing.

Did anything exist before us? I'm sure. Actually, I'm more positive than anything, there was something other than nothing.

But even if there was a nothing, where nothing, existed... not 1 something... there would have to be a something that evolved a nothing to begin with...

or...am I just too unintelligent to know that something cannot exist when nothing is to evolve from nothing?

Answer 5

"Something" exists becos there is something called "nothing"...If "nothing" does not exists then everything becomes something and then there is nothing again. Its simple. Go back to the question of whether the glass is half full or half empty...there is no absolute answer cos both are correct and that you need the 2 to exist in order to see the glass of water...imagine the glass is not half empty... wat would it be?
Similarly, Void is there for a reason, and that nothingness is the duality of somethingness..hahah if there is a word like tat.
Its like when u put some marbles in a bowl...do you see the marbles in a bowl or do u see a bowl of marbles, everything comes relative to one another...none exists without the other...the philosophy of YIN and YANG.

Answer 6

Nothing doesnt exist because we're always looking for something.

It takes at least 2 things for something to happen. If u think about it, your question is nothing if nobody saw it. Your empty house is nothing if you're not in it and u dont think abt it being empty. When u look, see and think about nothing, it becomes something.

Answer 7

Because of the definition of the two words. Nothing can not exist, because if it exists, that makes it something.

Answer 8

Because you are right. Nothing does not exist.

Answer 9

Because nothing from nothing leave nothing; you gotta have something if you wanna be with me...[sorry the song the jump in my head]

Answer 10

something always had to exist.. or there would be nothing -not even humans sitting here questioning what something and nothing are.

Answer 11

Right. If God created everything, who created God?

And if there was a Big Bang, what was here before it?

It's really to much to handle...I think my head just asploded.