Why do things exist at all? Why does something exist, instead of nothing? In order to understand why anything exist at all, let us first understand why some things exist.
When you ask why some particular thing exists, an equivalent question is to ask why that particular thing exist the way it exists, and not differently. For example if I ask why the sky is blue, I am basically asking for what reason the sky is blue instead of red or green or else. I am asking for the particular reason that makes it be this color, and not another one. Here are two solutions:
– First solution: Nothing exists. It solves the problem perfectly. If nothing exists then there is no need to answer the question, because there is no question to start with. You cannot ask why some thing exists the way it exists, because no thing exists to start with. In addition, there is no need to ask “why nothing exists?” because nothing is self fulfilling. A “reason”, or an “answer” is something already, and if there were a reason for nothing to exist then it wouldn’t be nothing. At the same time, there is no need for a reason for nothing at all to exist. There is nothing to ask a reason for… so no problem neither.
– Second solution: Everything exists. And by Everything it is meant every thing imaginable, or even not imaginable. Example: there is a parallel dimension in which physical laws are different and the Earth has she shape of a frog and it is moving around a chocolate-made sun which suddenly explodes into flowers… yes that would be included inside everything. Why does it solve the problem that Everything exists? Because when you ask the question “Why is this thing the way it is and not differently?” the question becomes obsolete: the thing you are referring too actually also exists differently. Below is an example of such question:
Questioner: Why is the sky blue, and not green or red?
Answerer: Numbers are a good exemple. In the same way that every thing exists, every number exists too, they all exist, all of them. Would it make sense to ask “Why does the number five equal five, and not three?”. The number five equals five by definition. If you want a number equal to three then there is no problem, just take the number three. Same here: all skies exist, and among them the blue one is blue, and the red one is red, they all are. Name it and you have it.
The interesting thing to note is that both solutions consist in making the question disappear. Any gradual answer would lead to a new question, and it would never end. The only solutions are those who make the question disappear (which means answering the question truly). The question was why a particular thing exists the way it exists, and not differently:
-If Nothing exists, there is no thing to ask about.
-If Everything exists, the part “and not differently” makes the question obsolete, because it does exist differently as well, canceling the need for a particular reason.
Both solutions are the same One.
The beauty is that both answers are the same answer. Everything and Nothing are the same. This allows us to answer the initial question: “Why do things exist at all? Why does something exist, instead of nothing?”. The answer is that because Everything sums up to Nothing, it turns out the Universe taken entirely is actually Nothing. And again the question is obsolete, which is the most satisfying way to answer it.
So why do you experience something? Admittedly you do not experience the entire Universe at once, because if you did, you would experience nothing. So what is happening? If the entire Universe is Nothing, how come you experience something? We answer this in the next section, the quick answer is: you only experience a subpart of Everything. I promise, we are approaching the end of the rabbit hole, just take another red pill.
Aeum 