No one knows. I really want to know, but the current understanding takes us back only to the big bang. Not why it happened or why anything exists at all.
The Anthropic Principle is at work here. If nothing existed we wouldn’t be here to ask why it exists.
Here’s some reaching: There’s the
theoryhypothesis that our universe is the inside of some construct in a higher universe* that is similar to if not actually a black hole.In our universe, time and space inside a black hole are causally disconnected from the outside so there can be a defined beginning without there needing to be time continuity across the event horizon. It’s often said that time and space switch places inside a black hole, which could mean that our time is relative to space outside of the universe. This hurts my head to think about. Almost like our time dimension runs sideways relative to whatever was “before”.
* As to whether this is turtles all the way down / universes all the way up, we’ll probably never know.
That’s not a theory; not in the scientific sense. That’s just someone being creative, we have no way to prove or disprove it, ergo it’s as useful as explaining everything by God.
You’re right. I should have used the word hypothesis.
No one knows, it’s unlikely we ever will. There’s stuff and that’s why you can even ask this question. If there wasn’t anything, you wouldn’t be able to ask anything. It happened, so now we have to deal with it.
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Your last sentence should become some kind of philosophy.
Look up Phenomenology.
There being stuff is privledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism
One interesting take
Ex physicist here: Fucking no clue, but here’s two neat ideas
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Because there has always been things. Basically it’s entirely possible the universe just kind loops around given enough time, there are a few really interesting ways to do this but the classic one is where the big bang reverses and there’s a bug crunch before a new big bang. That’s not very likely based on our observations, but there are other more mathematically complex ways to have a cyclical universe, and they don’t necessarily require having a defined beginning.
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Because nothingness is unstable. Basically, if there’s a concept of nothingness, no energy, particles time or space, but it’s possible for little universes to occasionally exist and disappear really quickly, then it’s possible that our universe suddenly popped into existence, got really fucking big before it could disappear again and then got stuck existing. This is based on the highly advanced area of physics called making a wild fucking guess.
I’d say most likely that we’ll have to be satisfied with that not being a question that can be answered. Much in the same way that we can’t answer the question of why the laws of physics look the way they do, we can just describe what they currently are.
None of that actually answers the question because it’s a philosophical one and not scientific. This really irritates the scientific mind.
Yeah that’s what I was getting at, all we can do is guess. It’s pretty easy to realise it’s impossible to answer scientifically, anything that could have any impact on our universe must necessarily be part of it and so cannot tell us anything about what came before.
There’s a third option: Black holes create new universes through some as yet undiscovered process. Then your existence just becomes a statistical eventuality, as do every other life that you could ever live.
There’s a fourth option: every reference to the mystical properties of black holes on lemmy creates new universes through some as yet undiscovered process. Then your existence just becomes a statistical eventuality, as do every other life that you could ever live.
It’s a simulation!!!
It’s a mega mind!
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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starts to dissolve
because the demiurge thought it would be cool
Because, to maintain “nothingness” the omniverse must balance matter and anti-matter.
Well, that became unbalanced because of random fluctuations.
So theres a pocket of matter and anti-matter didn’t annihilate for some reason, I call it “plot armor” reasons, and that separated from each other forming 2 regions of space.
So the region of positive-matter, through randomness eventually formed our universe.
The region of anti-matter probably formed its own anti-verse
Ok I’m bullshitting, I’m not a scientist and I made up the whole thing mmkay? That’s my amateur explaination of the universe. Fight me.
But like, philosophically make sense.
How do you get something from 0?
0= [+1] + [-1]
See? That’s my mathematical proof.
Its my version of E=MC², but with the creation of the universe and anti-verse.
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Isn’t antimatter still “something?” It’s not nothing.
There isn’t any anti-verse, normal matter won for reasons still unknown, because the big bang should have created an equal amount of matter and antimatter. So plot armour is a good enough explanation for now.
But since there was less antimatter, it was all annihilated.
That still doesn’t answer OP’s question, though, you can go further - why did big bang create more matter? Why did big bang happen? And if you one day manage to answer that, you’ll have to ask why the thing that caused big bang happened?
The question simply doesn’t have an answer.
why did big bang create more matter?
(Again, I’m not doing a scientific explanation, this is a philosophical explanation)
There is the same amount of matter and antimatter, but some mysterious energy propelled them to separate with a distsnce in between them. This is how the universe and the anti-verse are stable. But eventually, these two different “universes” will collide and annihilate each other again.
I think you’re mistaking philosophy for something else. Ignoring facts is not philosophy.
Fuck all this. Let’s get a second opinion from the nothingverse, maybe they know something we don’t
Because it can. If it couldn’t it wouldn’t but it can so it does. Be can do, so do be.
Stuff exists so it can ask questions like “why is there stuff?”
Because 42.
No, that’s for “what do you get if you multiply six by nine?”"
Have you heard of the big bang?
I have. Its the matter and antimatter thing. I wonder who put it there in the first place
