Why is there Something Rather Than Nothing?

[Monroe Claxton]

 

[entropy13]

Simulation theory. Think about how similar the Big Bang was to someone or something hitting a power button.

 

[bkingUK]

Simply asking the question if there is one example of nothing existing is a contradiction in and of itself.

But nevertheless, if there were an example of nothing existing, how could it ever be proven?

 

[bluthruandthru]

 

[TortElvisII]

How could there be nothing?

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

 

[BMoore2]

This is a religious question, and while I am religious, this question won’t cause atheists and agnostics to budge. Kinda like a political conversation, people are unlikely to change their minds, no matter how you ask different questions.

 

[bkingUK]

Let’s say you were to take a 6x6 sq foot area of empty space. This area could still have temperature, lightwaves, dark gravity (I think), and other elements that are too complicated for my brain.

The argument that Leslie is making is if you were subsequently subtract each of these things then you could arrive at nothing. And that makes sense to me.

It’s similar in my mind to the concept of null in computer science. Null is not zero. Null is void of value, which ironically means you can also pass null.

But then is an area containing light and gravitational waves something in the first place? Is it even possible to have an area with out gravitational waves? Even temperature is a relative construct, but we’d have to infer if the quest is to rid ourselves of all elements that absolute 0 must be the baseline.

 

[starchief]

Let’s say you were to take a 6x6 sq foot area of empty space. This area could still have temperature, lightwaves, dark gravity (I think), and other elements that are too complicated for my brain.

The argument that Leslie is making is if you were subsequently subtract each of these things then you could arrive at nothing. And that makes sense to me.

It’s similar in my mind to the concept of null in computer science. Null is not zero. Null is void of value, which ironically means you can also pass null.

But then is an area containing light and gravitational waves something in the first place? Is it even possible to have an area with out gravitational waves? Even temperature is a relative construct, but we’d have to infer if the quest is to rid ourselves of all elements that absolute 0 must be the baseline.

Huhh??????

 

[bkingUK]

Huhh??????

Long story short... nothing is a concept and similar to quantum mechanics, the act of observing nothing changes nothings state into something. Thus, nothing can only by theorized

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

This is a religious question, and while I am religious, this question won’t cause atheists and agnostics to budge. Kinda like a political conversation, people are unlikely to change their minds, no matter how you ask different questions.

It’s true. I was puzzled by nothingness. Then I became a Buddhist, and now I totally understand it.

 

[Deeeefense]

97% of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy, yet we have no idea what either it is, can't see it can't measure it, can't weigh it. So if you removed all the matter in the universe including dark matter and dark energy you would have created "nothing" but if you did that, wouldn't "nothing" be a thing?

the question is better left to quantum physicists not philosophers.

 

[chroix]

I am a non believer in nothing.