Why is there Something rather than Nothing? This is a question that philosophers have pondered over for quite some time. It seems as if the more natural and easy state of reality would be that there was nothing, absolutely nothing, anywhere! But obviously there is something. There is, at a minimum, us! And we perceive an immense number and complexity of other stuff in a huge universe. So how did this Something, whatever it is, come to be?
Perhaps it could be a simple question to answer. Maybe the answer is that there is both Something and Nothing.
I arrived at that answer by applying Occam’s Razor. Reality solved the problem of whether to be Something or Nothing by the simplest solution; by being both.
It may seem as if the two are mutually exclusive. But why should that stop reality? Quantum physics has already presented us with examples of seeming contradiction. Why not Something and Nothing coexisting peacefully?
So where is the Nothing? It’s here, it’s just not observable.
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” — Walt Whitman
Can Something and Nothing both be the nature of reality? Perhaps this question has a quantum indeterminacy type of answer. If you look for Nothing, you find it, by ceasing to exist. If you look for Something, that’s easy!
I acknowledge that I do not know anything, really, but that’s why these are called Musings. If I were to get serious about it, I would have to call my brother, Daniel, and he would remind me that I’m missing the point of existence: to have fun!
Also, it seems to me (and it also seems to me that everyone draws conclusions and makes decisions based on what it ‘seems’ to them) that Everything and Nothing are actually the same thing!
Consider: Everything would consist of everything AND its exact opposite, which would all cancel out and equal Nothing. In other words, out of Nothing, Anything arises.
Further, I AM that from which arises
the entire universe, in all its many guises . . .
Could that be another way of saying that i am nothing? But i don’t mind, as i am also anything.