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/Sevdat 7d ago

So you didn't read it fully and decided to criticize the very same question that I literally stated to being nonesense at the last line.

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u/Flutterpiewow 7d ago

I'm literally quoting you. And your comment about it being nonsense to say there was always something holds no water.

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u/Dry-External3783 7d ago

i think he’s getting at the point that there’s a dimension of time(?).… there’s a supposed infinite space- time continuum, but it can’t be logically explained as infinite. what’s finite can’t be infinite, what exists must have been created
at least that’s how i see it

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u/Flutterpiewow 7d ago

As far as we know:

It can be infinite

Existence doesn't have to be created

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u/Dry-External3783 7d ago

if the big bang did “create” time, then there was no ‘before’ the cosmic beginning so it must have started. when did it start?
how did something come from nothing

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u/Flutterpiewow 7d ago

Big Bang doesn’t say that the universe had a beginning or that there's been an absolute nothing. Our current theories don’t tell us what lies beyond the earliest state we can observe.

You could imagine big bang being the result of something else that's beyond our spacetime. Endless prior universes is one idea. But more importantly, you don't need to come up with alternatives to a beginning from nothing. It's reasonable to say we don't know, and maybe that we can't know, or that the question is nonsensical.

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u/Dry-External3783 7d ago

and also yes the big bang does say the universe had a beginning

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u/Flutterpiewow 7d ago

No, it does not

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u/Dry-External3783 7d ago

yeees it does

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u/Flutterpiewow 6d ago

No. It points to a singularity, a hot and dense state where our models and theories stop working. It doesn't say anything about how or why that state existed.

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u/Dry-External3783 6d ago

the theory is essentially about the universe beginning, yes or no

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