Why is there anything rather than nothing?
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Who says that there is anything at all? It has been postulated that the universe is one gigantic vacuum fluctuation. If that is the case, then the universe is simply nothing arranged in an interesting manner.
No factual answer for this. Sorry. Try GD, although I’m sure you’ll get lots of theories here.
Then that would be ‘something’.
everything is ‘something’. even ‘nothing’. Having an identity makes it so.
Well, the anthropomorphic principle can be used to answer this. If there was nothing, then we wouldn’t be discussing this.
And criminalcatalog ‘nothing’ having an identity does not make it something, ‘nothing’ is the opposite of ‘something’. So that old chestnut
What is greater than God,
A rich man wants it,
But a poor man has it …
Is not answered by nothing, the answer nothing merely says there is no thing that answers this riddle. ‘What is nothing’ is a bad question because the words what and is presuppose that the object of the sentence is a thing, whilst the concept of nothing is not a thing. So the only answer to ‘What is nothing’ is a definition of the word ‘nothing’ and not the concept which the word expresses.
Cheers Bippy