How everything came to be and why
Part 1: Nothing
Definition of nothing: Not any thing. The absence of something. Zero.
So to my simple mind nothing must be the simplest form possible. Nothing is nothing but nothing. There cannot be large nothing or small nothing unlike something which can be big, tiny, red, green, square, round, whatever.
There is nothing in nothing so where does something come from? There is a lot of something around - stuff, matter, particles, people - whatever you want to call it. At least one whole universe full of stuff, probably several all made out of something. Which came first then, something or nothing? I have up to now thought that first there would nothing and then the universe came into being probably from a Big Bang throwing a mind-boggling amount of stuff into the nothingness. But now I'm not so sure. If there is nothing in nothing where did the something for the Big Bang to make the universe with come from?
If there couldn't be nothing before the creation of creation and subsequently the universe, then something, not nothing, must have always existed. But what was all this stuff that was here before the Big Bang? The idea of there only ever being nothing is something I could get my head round - well actually no, because I wouldn't exist and therefore would not have a head to get round anything. But what reason could there be for anything to exist at all?
Nothing makes sense. Something doesn't make sense.
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