The Biggest Question of All
Why is there something in the universe instead of nothing? Big Questions Online gives ten answers to perhaps the biggest question to ever vex us.
“Asking why there is something rather than nothing presumes ‘nothing’ is the natural state of things out of which ‘something’ needs an explanation. Maybe ‘something’ is the natural state of things and ‘nothing’ would be the mystery to be solved. As the physicist Victor Stenger notes in his forthcoming book, Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: ‘Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.'”
