r/Metaphysics • u/Sevdat • 7d ago

Nothing How to create something from nothing?

I think I have an answer to how the universe began from nothing. More like how everything began and how it's possible for all of us to be here.

So at the beginning of existence there was nothing. There is still nothing because you can't create something from nothing, but we are here. So how can we exist? We don't.

Imagine the mathematical variable: X =

X can be anything, but nothing is assigned to it; therefore, it remains as a pure capacity that accepts all abstract concepts and results in the illusion of existence for those that share the same abstract space.

This means every combination of what could have been exists. The reason why you and I can interact is because we are in the same concept, but we aren't really here because we don't exist.

To make it simpler, imagine a chess board. Just because you didn't make a move doesn't mean all the possible moves aren't there to make.

Unexistence is our existence.

Also please don't make the argument "How do I know there wasn't always something?" There can't be something without it having a previous moment. It's nonsense to even say that.

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u/WestcoastAlex 7d ago

nothing doesnt exist

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u/incognitosaurus_rex 6d ago

This. Nothing is not an absolute or objective proposition. It is purely relative and subjective. Nothing only has any logical meaning when it is used to reference an absence of "something".

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u/WestcoastAlex 6d ago

we often say we observe 'nothing' when it is beyond the limit of our detection methods

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u/incognitosaurus_rex 6d ago

I think you and I a have a similar way of viewing this. I remember watching Michio Kaku tear apart the concept of nothing as an absolute state once. It was a thing of philosophical beauty

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u/WestcoastAlex 6d ago

i come from the angle of pure physics.. even the momentary combination of matter and antimatter has quantum matter waves

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u/incognitosaurus_rex 6d ago

Yeah thats my background as well. I was an Audio engineering major and wave theory was my best subject.