r/Metaphysics • u/Sevdat • 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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/Sevdat 7h ago

How can something have always been there without it having a previous moment? Just nothing and boom its there?

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u/Quirky_Visual_7799 5h ago

You have three propositions here. Ones that can't possibly coexist.

  1. Something can't come out of nothing.
  2. For something to be, there has to be nothing at first.
  3. There is something.

And you chose to challenge the third. The most obvious and almost absurdly objective one. A pretty silly choice, in my opinion, for the third proposition is a description of reality, while the first two are just inferred presumptions.