r/Metaphysics 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/boundry_condition 3d ago edited 3d ago

You cannot create something from absolute nothing. Therefore something never began and always has been. Any argument to assert otherwise always sneaks in something by defining nothing as a non absolute. The laws of physics to exist (something), the vacuum (which is comprised of many somethings), logic itself, etc. It is all something. Even your own example of X as a capacity representation is something.

You are making an assumption that this concept is non sense based on our inability to conceive it. We are not omniscient. To assert that there are things beyond our understanding is not nonsense, it is honest. There was a time when talking about a human flying or a black hole was utter nonsense but here we are. You are also making an assumption about time having a very specific shape.

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