Why is there something instead of nothing?
2007-01-22 03:21:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I start out with the premise that mathematics consists of necessary facts about logical systems. Man does not create those facts he discovers them. They exist independently of man. I also observe that a mathematical simulation of nature would be indistinguishable from nature itself. I observe that the set of mathematical simulations of nature are a subset of mathematics, therefore they exist independently of man. I am proposing that What we observe to be nature Is one of these self-existant mathematical simulations.
I believe that nature is almost always describable by simple mathematical formulas not because we have invented mathematics to do so but because underlying nature is mathematics itself.
To describe nature requires we use numbers and abstract number systems. Using imagery from another discipline, one could say that the language best suited for texts about nature is mathematics. There has been considerable reflection on the significance of the fact that parts of nature can be successfully described with mathematics, a feature that has been referred to as the "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics in physics.
2007-01-22 03:39:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in a universe that is truly infinite, sometimes there has to be something (and sometimes there is nothing).
Back at ya: why is the only possible explanation for anything, the existence of a deity?
2007-01-22 11:33:01 · answer #2 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An Atheist might ask you to consider why there is God instead of nothing.
Neither question can have an answer and neither one can outweigh the other in terms of relevance
2007-01-22 11:25:18 · answer #3 · answered by malcolmg 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow... trying to get deep are we... are you looking for us to answer: "If we are atheists, why do we believe the universe exists?"
Is that what you are trying to get at? There's no way to answer the question as you presented it.
2007-01-22 11:27:17 · answer #4 · answered by Existence 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it make sense to posit a why?
Aren't you assuming with the question that there is a why to be asked? An answer to your question?
2007-01-22 11:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by eigelhorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what kind of question is that? why is there something instead of nothing? There isn't something....but that doesn't rule out nothing....you are confusing me
2007-01-22 11:26:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is not and cannot ever be an answer to that question, I as an atheist have got over it.
2007-01-22 11:25:35 · answer #7 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Who knows? no one.
Who cares? not me.
Why are we here, is the ultimate question that will never be answered. You'll have to learn to live with that.
2007-01-22 11:28:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no why. The universe exists and so do I and I'm happy enough with that.
2007-01-22 11:26:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was nothing I couldn't go skiing.
2007-01-22 11:26:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋