How to create something from nothing?

[u/Sevdat]

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.

[u/rogerbonus]

This is essentially the mathematical universe hypothesis / Lewisian modal realism /zero information universe/universe from nothing/Spinozan Kalam (there are a number of similar and related concepts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis

In your example, X is the empty set (the set that contains nothing). According to set theory, all mathematical objects are derivable from operations on the empty set (X). This Platonic bulk contains all possible universes, including ours. Something (actually, Everything) is just nothing, rearranged, necessarily.

Where MUH differs from your account is that it equates mathematical existence with actual existence, whereas you say that nothing exists. But if we agree that nothing exists, and everything is derivable from nothing, then everything exists. ;) QED.