The question that can't be answered, or can it, "Why did the universe bother to come into existence?"

Question

I have my own varied answers.
1. It had to. (But I don't know why)
2. Something outside of the universe command it to. (But I don't know why)
3. It never came into existence, it always was.
What is your opinion?

Answer 1

Good options are noted. I pick the simplest one - #3

I accept the permanence to the universe, and that its constituents of mass and energy are equally permanent. I'm taking no more liberty in the permanence of an entitiy than any person of "faith".

Options #1 and #2 requires a second structure, or being, that is not only superior to the permanence to the universe, but also capable of creating a universe. But this argues with itself, in that the raw material to make the universe would have to exist, pulling one back to your option #3. There's no avoiding this point.

As the saying goes, "When you hear hoofbeats coming, first think horses, not zebras" (I guess this doesn't work if you're in Africa!)

Answer 2

You ask the question as if the universe itself had some form of intelligence to control or determin its own existence!!! LOL

Overall the universe and most aspects of it are FAR beyond the abilities of human beings to comprehend. More importantly, is WHY would or should anyone care????? The point is, is that you and everyone else is in it and a part of it. The why's are a waste of time. If anyone knew or found out, then what???? They'd have the same amount of control over it and themselves as they do now!!!

Maybe a better question would be: Why do so many people get on here and ask pointless questions instead of being more active in self awareness or using their time in a more positive manner?

Answer 3

To become self aware through the eyes of creatures like you and I and my cat. It did an amazing job, don't you think? There is beauty all around, e.g., the alpenglow kissing snowcapped peaks at sunset while the night breezes sough through the pine tree tops and the stars wink on, reflecing off the still lake into your eyes, and you think, wow . . . I exist. Good job Universe! 13.7 billiion years in the making, and one big thumbs up from me. I just wonder about life in the Andromeda Galaxy next door (only 2.4 million light years away). A bigger, brighter, more beautiful and awesome collection of 200 billion suns. Surely, somewhere out there, there must be a civilzation that does not have suicide bombers and religious mumbo jumbo as a guiding force for the blind leading the blind. But I digress.

Answer 4

There must have been an original universe where all other universes sprang from. Perhaps that universe contained extremely different dimensions and laws than we are familiar with. Or perhaps our universe is that prime universe; I don't know which is true.

Regardless, you could trace if all back to the beginnings of that prime universe, I don’t see how there could be a reason why it came into existence, or perhaps it always existed (which I prefer) I don’t see why the laws don’t change. Perhaps they do change?

Answer 5

I think that it is more of a thought form that reality.

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

Scientists tend to think it was #3. I'm a materialist so I agree with that as being the most likely.
The problem is that people ask "Why is there something instead of nothing?" with the assumption that "nothing" is the "natural" state of being. We really have no reason to think that is so. It's just as likely that "something" is the natural state of being, and that the universe, or something, has always existed.

Answer 7

You cannot understand that question until you understand who God is. God is love. And love by nature is a creative force. His loving force has a plan and purpose. Just as dynamic as two human beings that form a new intelligent being with all it's genetic components intact.

God's ways are not man's ways. God's ways are higher than man's ways. God's ways are past man's being able to find out the why or how. But as as a believer I know God's plan included the fall of Lucifer and the angels from heaven. Man living in on earth and his fall from the relationship we had with God in the beginning. God plan of love including sending his only begotten son to live a life of from a babe to a man. His purpose was to die for all of the crimes man does to his fellow man. God himself would take God's sentence upon hiimself and shed his blood and die on the cross. That once his death was done and redemption for sin was accepted by \God then all mankind were freed from the death sentence of sin. God redeemed man from the sin that occurred back in the Garden of Eden. The past, present, and future , that includes us, were reconciled through time. That's because Jesus was God in the fliesh.

The existence for the universe is to show how great God loves man. Love is God's nauture. That is what Easter and Passover is all about. And the question is, will man, a creature God created,love God in return or reject His creator?

Answer 8

The term "bother" bothers me; it implies some sort of intelligence or free will, for which there is no evidence. I doubt that the full answer to this can ever be known, and I am satisfied, absent better information, simply to regard it as a happy accident.

Answer 9

My opinion...I have no idea why the universe bothered to come into existence. But, since it is here and I am here, I will make the best of it. To me it is a mystery, a mystery that we can't solve.

Answer 10

Under certain circumstances and reason, certain things will exist. That applied to the universe as well. For example, your mother and father met, they got married and gave birth you. You don't choose to be exist.