Why is there something rather than nothing?

Question

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Answer 1

There is actually nothing too, problem is we haven't noticed it because there is nothing to notice.

Answer 2

It's an illusion. We are the figments of each others imagination.

Answer 3

Because nothing is an abstract that can never come to be.

Answer 4

The answer is very simple:

There cannot be "Nothing".  Correct?

Therefore, only thing left is for there to be something.

There isn't Nothing right now

Answer 5

who said their is something? maybe something is created out of nothing? orr maybe there is something which still means nothing?

Answer 6

Because "nothing" doesn't exist.

There has always been something because the alternative is impossible.

But, yeah, this is a tough question.  Gives me a brain freeze to think about it.  Unfortunately the human brain has problems getting an understanding of this question because, in part, our language treats "nothing" as if it were a something.  This happens because we are not careful about noticing that not all nouns (like nothing, God, etc.) refer to something.  And sometimes we get confused between attributes and objects, like thinking that "good" is a thing instead of an attribute.

Answer 7

To me there always has to be something that exist. I can't conceive of absolutely no existence, it's just impossible to me. Even when you have nothing, that nothing is existing as non-existence. Even the vacuum state of Nirvana in Buddhism exist, and to me that is the where absolutely nothing could be said to exist.

There's some people who ask what was there before God or who created Him, and to me that question is putting it into a human projection of an infinite ego or something.

But if you take everything you know and everything there is and everything you believe, like God, and take yourself and toss all of it, there would still be something that exist. There's always been and always will be something, even if that something is nothing to us, and I think it's what we call existence.

Answer 8

Something must be there to say there is nothing. hence forth there cannot be nothing.