No one ever agrees with this argument, so I'll just put it here in case anyone's interested. If not, just ignore it. Thanks. I think that to ever get ...
I already said my view, which you had previously quoted, that the seeming temporal change from "nothing" to "something" is like an artifact imposed by...
I'm not a big fan of Sean Carroll's because his final answer to the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is that it's a brute fact. ...
That's great! If quantum fields are "the basis of all that is possible" and "the fundamental strokes", who am I to argue with great literature?! I wit...
Agreed! On this, we are in unity! :smile: It's a possibility that something has always been here, but to me, that seems unsatisfying since I still don...
Yep, that's what I think. Without having some thing that exists because of whatever's inherent to that thing, I think there will be an infinite regres...
Not a grouping of existence, but I think a grouping is what causes something to exist. For instance, a grouping together of paper, ink and binding ato...
Hi. When you hear physicists talk about something coming from nothing, the nothing they're talking about still contains the laws of quantum physics, q...
I'm more along the lines of this. At the most fundamental level, the reason for what exists is inherent to it. I put my view on what this might be on ...
Benj96: Hi. My view is more along the lines of your first choice "The universe came from nothing. Something is a property of nothingness". My rational...
In using "it" to refer to "nothing", I don't think it's reifying "nothing" just by talking about it because the mind's conception of "nothing" and "no...
But I think the question remains. Why is quantum field theory, logic or statistical probabilities there? If we say the laws of math, logic and physics...
Why is that something that must be/quantum field there? While it's possible there's no explanation possible, I think that to ever get a satisfying ans...
When you say "We starting confusing ourselves when we lose track of the difference between the world and the words we use to describe it. That's what ...
1. Can’t get something from nothing 2. So something must of existed permanently 3. There is no reason for something existing permanently - to exist pe...
While cosmology is physics, and metaphysics is philosophy, the way I look at it is that they can work together to let us figure out how the universe w...
For me, it doesn't matter if it's an illusion/simulation or not. What ever it is, it exists. Now, why? If we can figure that out, even if it is a simu...
Hi. I like the way you put it when you say "some people can't conceive of it while others can" and "it's not clear if arguments of the form: «X is uni...
I think my vote is that I have neither of the two intuitions. My views on the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" are: 1. I don't a...
"The universe can be conceived of as having emerged from the possibility space" Where does the "possibility space" come from? Possibilities exist in m...
I wasn't saying to start with a 1. I was saying that we start with nothing. But, another way of visualizing nothing is as a something. They're two dif...
To answer the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" in a satisfying way, I think we have to face the possibility that there could hav...
In some ways, I agree with you and in others I disagree. I agree that you just can't get something from nothing, with from (implying a change), being ...
That's pretty much what I was trying to get at. But, like I said, while it's not possible to visualize"nothing" directly, we do our best to imagine wh...
Hi. It's for sure that we can't directly visualize or grasp "absolute nothing", so all we can do is try to visualize being as close to that as possibl...
Hi, Eremit. Thanks for replying! I agree with you when you say that the concept of nothing presupposes the something that it negates, but nothing itse...
Hi. I'm a new subscriber. Sorry for the little bit longer post to begin with. Others have suggested that the seeming insolubility of the question "Why...
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