Why the world exists has been called the "Fundamental Question of Metaphysics."

Some have argued that the question of why the world exists isn't valid.

Assuming it's valid, the question of why the world exists can be answered by physics or the use of reason.

Why does the world exist? In other words, why is there something rather than nothing? This ultimate mystery in philosophy and physics has been called the "Fundamental Question of Metaphysics."

First, it might be that the question itself is flawed. “Nothing” is a human abstraction used to describe the absence of specific entities. The concept cannot be extended to all reality. If there truly was "nothing," then nothing could ever exist, which contradicts the brute fact that we are here to pose the question.

Already in the fifth century BCE, the pre-Socratic Parmenides of Elea argued that one cannot speak or think of "nothing." To think of anything at all, it must in some sense exist or pre-exist. Logically, something cannot come out of nothing, or nothing out of something. If there is something, there cannot have been nothing, and vice versa.

Quantum Physics and the Multiverse

When we try to imagine nothingness, we find that we cannot. In our mind's eye, there is still, for example, light and space. “Nothing” could be a non-descript state, lacking the laws and........

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