Why is there anything at all? (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Monday, June 16, 2008, 19:12 (5786 days ago) @ David Turell

I googled "Cosmology something from nothing" and got only one article! However putting the quote marks round "something for nothing" rather than the whole phrase produced more results. One of them was a Wikipedia entry, to which I took the liberty of adding an introductory paragraph. Whether it will stay there for long remains to be seen. - David wrote: I am imagining, to study this issue, a complete void where there are no quanta and nothing else. Nothing should happen. But something did happen. - What does it mean here to say that something "happens"? If there is no time then "happening" has no meaning. - David concludes: That leaves us with two possibilities in that before the universe situation, as I stated before. That gives us a 50/50 proposition before the universe's Big Bang, either an atheistic 'something quanta state' or theistically a God force. - At the risk of being repetitive, my view is a third possibility, namely that there was no "creation" or "coming into being" there was simply a "beginning". This may be a splitting of hairs, but the situation is not easily covered by everyday language. To talk about there being "something before the beginning" makes no sense, as I have said (citing Hawking I think) it is like "something north of the north pole". - If we try to talk, paradoxically, about the "nothing" that "existed" before the universe, it possessed neither time nor space. It was truly a philosophical logical and metaphysical nothing. The universe has existed since the beginning of time, or in other words the universe has "always" existed. It has a beginning, but nothing existed "before" it.