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Question: Why is there something rather than nothing!. Is this a valid question!? Can "there be" nothing!?
Why "is!.!.!.there" something rather than nothing!? Nothing is not there, nor here, or over there!. Are the words/meanings "is!.!.!.there" and "nothing", mutually incompatible sub-statements!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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There is no such thing as "nothing"!. Think of it!. Can you imagine "nothing"!? When we die, we are said to be "nothing" but dead, or a dead body!. But, we are a dead body!.What of the energy from the body that used to be alive!. It is something!. That energy is recycled, or reconstituted!. We can't see the wind, but it has power!. We can't see solar winds, but it has power!. We can't see the actual electrical activity that makes a heart beat, but it is there!. Yes, scientific technology allows us to see representations of these things, so they are there!. Mystics and Psychics see a person's aura!. Many of us can see the "Northern Lights"!. Just because some can see some things, while others may not, does not mean that they are nothings!. Just that they are elsewhere!. Make sense!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes it is a valid question!. Heidegger and Leibniz already asked this if I'm not mistaken!.!. if we use Descartes' and even Marcel's argument, we find that to say "Nothing Exists" is self contradictory because to say that Nothing exists is to already have a notion of what Nothing is, and to say that it doesn't exist would require you to know about it, and according to Descartes, when we make a judgment or an assertion, we are actually perceiving it to be, therefore to perceive that Nothing exists will in turn contradict the nothingness of nothing!.!.

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What is nothing!?

"Nothing" by definition is the foundation of everything, it is the non-existence everywhere as a clearing for everything!.

Then again, "nothing" could be just something that is not observed nor observable!. In that regard, there really is "nothing"!.

Question is whether it is "nothing" or "Nothing"!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

There must be something, because "nothing" is unstable!. There are maybe an infinite number of ways for there to be something, but only one way for there to be nothing, so something is infinitely more probable than nothing!.

"Are the words/meanings "is!.!.!.there" and "nothing", mutually incompatible sub-statements!?"

Good point, language often fails us when discussing such abstract notions as nothingness!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Perfection of Wisdom is an ancient Buddhist text that deals with just this!. There are lots of versions, but in essence they convey the same thing; that things are not "things"!.!.!. neither are they "not-things"!. All phenomena is void of self-nature, and in a constant state of becoming!.

But it isn't a concept you can intellectually grasp!. You have to realise it in your own being!.
Trying to understand it through thinking is like trying to imagine the entirety of space, or trying to measure eternity with a stopwatch!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The universe is still expanding!. If and when it stops expanding and begins to shrink to the point of its origin, then there'll be nothing!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, nothing exist as non-existence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i am nothingWww@QuestionHome@Com