Why Dose anything Exist?

Question

If the Universe is composed of matter and Energy, of witch neither can be created or destroyed, than how can any thing exist, even the matter for the big bang had to come from somewhere, but it seems nobody looks past that, I imagine even a divine spirit requires a certain amount of energy before they can come into being.

I've gotten a lot of good answers but im looking for were did all this come from, because at some point there had to be no time no space no physics nothing at all then suddenly this nothing regurgitated on its self and became somthing, even more mind boggleing is that time is probably infinately long forward and back

Answer 1

Of course, the Big Bang has to be an abstraction of events that took place billions of years ago. To answer your question is impossible, unless you accept the assumption that things DO exist.

Now, as to why we perceive things, that is a matter of electrons (no pun intended). It is the outer "shells" of electrons in a piece of matter that gives it it's 'feel', so when we touch something the outer electrons of the molecules making up our skin interacts with the outer electrons of the matter being touched.

Where DID the original matter that made up the Big Bang come from? My reasoning is that it has always existed, and that the Big Crunch (a part of the Oscillating Universe Theory) will eventually be proven to be true, OR, the Steady State Theory may prove to be true at least in part.

Answer 2

Ever read Descartes?

He set about finding what existed by questioning the existence of everything.

Then there was that Zen thing about a guy who went to sleep and dreamed he was a butterfly. Then he awoke to find that he was really a man... or perhaps a butterfly dreaming it was a man.

As for the big bang... that's a theory based on the observation that everything in the universe seems to be expanding. If something is expanding, if one follows that thing's history, it must have occupied less and less space until... What?

Well, there's a presumption that there was a small, extremely dense thing there which, for some reason. went BANG! And all the stuff that was condensed in that thing began to expand.

If you're wondering where the energy came from. Think how small an atom is, and how much energy is released when it's split. And the particles are small and some last only an instant. Whatever that "thing" from which the universe was supposed to be created was supposed to have been, the particles are somewhat larger and seem to last a little longer than what the atom releases. One might reasonably suspect there was a little energy involved in the big bang.

The late Karl Sagan said that some say a deity had to create the universe, simply because they can't see matter lasting forever. They believe that some deity created the universe. Dr. Sagan said that why couldn't the matter have existed forever?

There is a theory that there's enough matter in the universe that the inherent gravity will eventually cause the universe to stop expanding and contract back in on itself, getting smaller and smaller until it becomes a very small, very dense thing which will again go BANG and start the process all over.

I suppose that this process isn't 100% efficient, and that some energy might be lost in each cycle, and that eventually there might only be a little pop... or none at all. If there is none, then all that will be left of the universe is, I guess, s very heavy rock, or maybe a very bright star that will eventually consume it's energy and quietly burn out.

But your speculation is just as reasonable as mine.

But, unless existence can be verified, perhaps it's origin is moot.

Answer 3

This is an excellent question and I am sure it is one that occupied the minds of many curious people. The best I can come up with is that it all really did come from nothing. There can be no other explanation. If you accept the fact that matter and energy are forms of the same thing then you may be able to agree with me. Energy is intangible, it has no mass, it is a form of nothing. The void that it all came from is so huge as to defy imagination but to me the void was the source of some kind of massive strain that manifested itself by changing one form of nothing into another. The instant all this energy appeared on the scene into the icy cold void it condensed into the particles that make up everything in existence today. This may be hard to grasp but its the only thing that |I can offer.

Answer 4

Why Does Anything Exist?

Just to start I am a very religious and scientific man.
Well we exist to live make things better for our off-springs.
God, Big Bang it is the same.
God could have created the Big Bang to start things off.
Then after the series of events He did many other things to end with, what could have been his worse creation, Man. We wage war, we steal, we do everything we shouldn't, and worst of all we are killing our planet.
God could be ever being, until we know for sure we cannot ask any philosophical questions as to God and the Big Bang.
We have some scientific proof that the Big Bang could've happened, I understand this, but what if God made the Big Bang?
I ask this only as a religious man, and I am sorry to have asked a question in an answer.
On the other hand God could have been created with the Big Bang we don't know, really we can't know anything from that far back.
Even the smartest and the wisest people cannot say what happened billions of years ago.
So I end my statement with saying really there is no reason for anything existing other than the creation of man creating things and God possibly the Big Bang.

Answer 5

The problem of proofing any theories about this matter is blundered by the fact that when the curvature of space-time is infinite like a time before big-bang, black hole or a time after a big crunch, predictability is broken down.
Predictability is the basic part of physic and mathematic and because predictabilty broke down when the curvature of space-time is infinite, we can say that the law of physic and mathematic before, after or beyond a singularity is different from the physic and mathematic as we know it.
Therefore any event (a point in 4-D space-time) before, after or beyond a singularity (a point in space-time where the curvature is infinite), is regarded as beyond our universe.

Universe itself is alive in a sense. Massive stars in this universe or their analog in other universe, died and form a black hole, which is a 4Dimensional plasenta for a younger universe.
Because the law of physic is different in different universe, the value of c can be different, therefore the value of E=mc2 will also be different. This will allow the creation of mass and energy, an 1g matter could be converted to energy in the previous universe, pass the singularity and went to the new universe as 100kg matter, because the value of c is different.
This is like you buy a 100kg of spice from Indonesia for 100$ and sell it in Holland for 100$/kg and got 10000$.

Answer 6

Divinities spring from thought. No matter is required.

What ever was there that exploded in the big bang flew into many smaller pieces. Nothing was destroyed. It was only scattered, like the wrappings on a firecracker, all over the place. The stuff is still here, only in very tiny little bits all over the place.

Answer 7

"there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

think of this...matter is energy. what's here is what will be--nothing more, nothing less--but can be transformed into something else. think of radioactive decay...which if i remember correctly everything decays to lead (?)--well whatever, essentially one thing "becomes" something else. anyway...taking all that into consideration, i suppose the "big bang" may have been an event where an matter/anti-matter interaction created an "Ultimate Thing" that has since been "decaying" into all these other things that eventually make up what we call stars and flowers and puppies and rainbows. yeah. something like that.

Answer 8

As Victor Stenger says... Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Because nothing is unstable.

Answer 9

Maybe You are just dreaming that you are on the computer right now and you will wake up somewhere totally different and go, "wow, I just had this weird dream about a thing called the internet and there was a question/answer forum that was trippy, people give other people answers to questions on it.

Answer 10

read the book "Being, Non-being and Anxiety". I forget who wrote it. Some famous Existentialist. Maybe Paul Tillich.