Why is there something instead of nothing?

Question

Can I get something instead of self-referential existentialist explanations?

Answer 1

Without a set starting place and time, there can be no beginning and thus no reality. Even before the Big Bang, something had to create the singular mass....

In that nothingness, one can postulate that if the "nothingness" were sufficiently stretched to extremes, the extremities could be in a position so far out of the neutral center reality that "something" appears to happen.

It's like taking a ten ton chunk of steel and studying it. By itself, it's totally inert. Stretch that block into miles long wire, though, and you get an electron imbalance that appears to create a current where none actually exists. In that one chunk, the positives and nagatives totally negate each other but the current "appears" to exist.

Since nothing can exist on its own without being created, there thus has to be an alternate reality universe in which "nothing" happened to counter this "something" universe. The term "nothing" is misleading, though, since it could simply be anti-matter.

You can imagine our reality as a sort of child's "jack". There's a center core of true nothing, but radiating arms with apparent universes at each end. "Apparent" universes....because on their own, they can't exist.

Answer 2

Why is there nothing instead of something? This is a typical model of standardization between the inherent duality of binomial nomenclature, and it's "division" of conscious entity. One's meandering upon the understanding of purpose within the reality of our own imagination is often left unfulfilled because we are still further defining a purpose to continue. If one is to cancel out all meaning within individuality as to adhere to the probability that nothing could be occuring somewhere possibly, then you are merely creating a disillusion of self-containment because you are cancelling out the improbable observation of what you may encounter as existing. If there was never something, how could nothing be possible? The parameters of your ontological perception will shift upon this concept constantly, if you are a dedicated observer of "something". Metaphysical catalyzations, or paranormal activity experienced within one's self, are the trigger of the cosmos which is defined internally, externally, astrologically, psychologically, philosophically, etc. I could spend an "eternity" defining the principle of something over nothing to you, but then, in your terms, I'd be "existientializing". What answer do you truly seek by revealing the fact that you do not believe in nothing? :-?

Answer 3

There is nothing, but the something distracts mankind so fully that hardly a one can recognize nothing. To understand, one must pass through "The Cloud of Unknowing". A book on this title subject articulated the matter in the 14th century and was believed to be a product of "Saint John of the Cross."

Answer 4

You really think you're going to get an answer to that here? Humans have no possible way to know the answer to this yet. We don't even know where the something came from.

Answer 5

Your questioning is distorted. You are using an "either /or" fallacy. Something and nothing go hand and hand much like night and day. You can not have one without the other.

Answer 6

Without going into a lengthy dissertation.. "space" even though mostly emptiness.. can't be a perfect vacuum or "nothingness" - so.. here we all are - plus all the other debris aka "star-stuff" - Capice..??

Answer 7

If there was nothing... where would we be? We have to have a name for everything including "nothing". Its still a discription for ...something... Nothing is something because we named it that. HA HA HA good question. I starred you

Answer 8

Good question... well the ultimate question, actually.

Ummmm, there is no knowing the answer.