Why does anything exist?

Question

Is there any way to answer this? What is the definition of existence anyway? Does something have to be detectable in some way in our universe to be considered existent? Why does anything exist and what is existence?

I'm not asking a silly religious question so don't tell me "god created existence". That wouldn't explain anything or answer the question. You would still have to explain why god exists and there is no objective evidence that god exists in the first place... so let's not even get into that discussion.

Answer 1

Because God decided that he wanted stuff to exist.

Answer 2

It has to.



The situation of absolute nothingness is a particular state in itself. So why should the state of absolute nothingness exist out of all other possibilities?



The question really is why is existence the way that we percieve it to be. Why is it not some other way?



Does anything exist if no detected? The answer is, well, no. Not in any particular form anyway. The whole edifice of quantum mechanics, which is one of the most successful and well tested theories ever invented, rests upon the concept that unless an observation is made, the system being observed will exist in all possible states simultaneously. Making the observation "ties down" the observed system to the particular form that we observe.



So does the tree make a noise? Yes, it makes every conceivable noise and then more. It only makes a PARTICULAR noise if there is someone there to hear it.



Cheers!

Answer 3

Your question can not be answered by looking for answers just inside the boundary of honest, exact natural science. Physics and chemistry does not answer your questions in a scientific way. By excluding other fields of knowledge and philosophy you will never reach the true answers you are looking for.

Let's take an easy example: What is information and how comes information into existence?

Information is neither matter nor energy. Information needs matter to be stored on and it needs energy to copy it and to transmit it and to receive it. All stored, transmitted and received information is encoded. This encoding/decoding process needs another set of information that has to be established before any storage, transmission or reception can take place. May be you can not "see" the information that contains the encoding / decoding of the main information.

But the possible fact that you can not see it does not mean that it does not exist.

Information in the above mentioned sense can never be created by accidental or random processes. There is always a source outside the boundaries of physics and chemistry - outside the limited properties of matter and energy.



Note: I did not use "silly religious answers" in trying to help you to find the answer beyond the classical physics and the quantum physics.

Answer 4

For an unknown amount of years ago, the universe was created with all the atoms we call matter, an atom is nothing physical but energy, once it decays it turns into carbon which in turn is matter but with less energy. what existed beyond the creation of our universe if far from imagination but there were other universes before ours and what that means is that there is something that contains universes known a hyperverse(not yet known to science, its my term of explanation) and which is like a giant atom, universes inside a nucleus and farther outside of that hyperverse, there is absolutely nothing, only space, no time,no existance,we are literally just a dream, just energy from the beginning till the end of our universe, maybe there is more than just us, maybe there are worlds with humans just like ours, billions upon billions of leonardo da vincis living through the renaissance in other universes. anyways, our perception(our eyes) is the as good as it gets we have evolved to see matter as something physical, when reality is just pure energy with a magnetic field which keeps them from combing with other atoms. the answer to why it exists is unattainable,millions year old extra terrestrial civilizations probably havent even scratched the surface on why everything exists, but accept the fact that everything does exist so they can explore to find the answer. our universe could also be an extra terrestrial experiment, (sending down probes we call UFOs might give a clue) but that is off topic and considered fake. everything in the universe goes in a patterned fashion and in the end turns to chaos, like the death of a star which contains noticably large amounts of energy enough to create a black hole that takes anything around it away from existance.

also by understanding how energy flows you can predict anything that will happen in the future, and why ghosts of our loved ones exist. always remember "matter=energy" like Einstein said. and energy is not something physical so the only problem is our perception of matter, the way our brain interprets what we see.

Answer 5

It all depends in the way how you perceive things around you! Take an example-Earlier we believed that nothing existed when we found nothing to feel,touch, or see around us.But today we know that in outerspace where even nothing exists, but still something exists called the dark energy or the dark matter which we cannot sense in any way to believe it exists but the fact is it is there!!

Interesting !

Answer 6

The Answer is 42,



lol sorry I couldn't help it

Answer 7

Because it does not have the ability not to.

Answer 8

Because it does.

Answer 9

Because it CAN!