Why is there something rather than nothing at all?

[katia]

Why is there something rather than nothing at all?
enlighten me! >

[Cindi Jones]

There is nothing.  You are a dream.

Cindi

[katia]

There is nothing.  You are a dream.

Cindi

alas

i'm mad

Yeah Katia, I'd be mad too....  judging from your avatar, you're all cracked up!

Cindi

i meant.  mentally insane

Katia... so did I!



Cindi

hence, insanity = dream 

[The Middle Way]

Someone, dreaming, desired another dreamer.

[Pica Pica]

the infinite nature of the universe allowed there to be enough combinations for something to happen.

[The Middle Way]

the infinite nature of the universe allowed there to be enough combinations for something to happen.

So many combos, derived of nothing? Is infinity incongruent with zero?

[Pica Pica]

infinity allows a lot of playfulness. i never said it was made from nothing...if it were all nothing then, no combos - and no us to wonder.

[The Middle Way]

So, in the words of Rosanne Rosannadanna:

It's always somethin'.

[Pica Pica]

in this case there must be, or there would not be any somethings to talk about it. Doesn't mean that there had to be though.

[The Middle Way]

Doesn't mean there had to be, at all.

Was it always somethin', though? Was there never nuthin'?

[Lisbeth]

Why is there something rather than nothing at all?
enlighten me! >

No reason.  But it is inevitable that there is something.  If there were nothing, you couldn't be asking the question, now could you?

There is nothing.  You are a dream.

A dream is something.

[Fiona]

Way back in the mists of time I did a university degree in mathematics. One of the things that
really fascinated me was creating numbers out of nothing. So by assuming "nothing" exists you
define the number 1 to be the set whose only member is that "nothing" and, hey presto!, you've
created "something" out of "nothing".

[The Middle Way]

...by assuming "nothing" exists you define the number 1 to be the set whose only member is that "nothing" and, hey presto!, you've created "something" out of "nothing".

So, in other words, {something} and {nothing} have a kind of equivalence, no?

none/o.t.a.

[Kate]

So, in other words, {something} and {nothing} have a kind of equivalence, no?

LOL, about as much as "up" and "down," or "left" and "right..."

Or me and you

~Kate~

[The Middle Way]

 

all of the above

There is nothing.  You are a dream.

Cindi

Whose dream, initially?

all or nothing at all

[RebeccaFog]

Why is there something rather than nothing at all?

Not A Thing Can Not Not Be
A
Thing
  Can Not
Not
Be

[The Middle Way]

 

[Fiona]

...by assuming "nothing" exists you define the number 1 to be the set whose only member is that "nothing" and, hey presto!, you've created "something" out of "nothing".

So, in other words, {something} and {nothing} have a kind of equivalence, no?

none/o.t.a.

More like nothing is something, therefore something exists.

[The Middle Way]

...by assuming "nothing" exists you define the number 1 to be the set whose only member is that "nothing" and, hey presto!, you've created "something" out of "nothing".

So, in other words, {something} and {nothing} have a kind of equivalence, no?

none/o.t.a.

More like nothing is something, therefore something exists.

well yeah, but {nothing is something} can be said to a statement of equivalence.

sum of the above

[RebeccaFog]

Now listen up childrens,

   According to my self professed theory;      It is totally entirely impossible for nothing to exist. I have no proof and no stats to show ye on this. Ya gots to take my word for it. Ya just gots to.   No.  You don't understand. Ya gots to take my word.

   Actually, I came to the conclusion that it's impossible for nothing to exist using my superhuman power of intuition.  It's what separates me from the grapes.