How is there something instead of nothing?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibniz thought that the fact that there is something and not nothing requires an explanation. The explanation he gave was that God wanted to create a universe – the best one possible – which makes God the simple reason that there is something rather than nothing.

Is there such a thing as nothing?

‘Nothing exists’ is simple in the sense of being an easy to remember generalization. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Why is nothing inherently unstable?

Certain scientists believe that quantum mechanics suggests that nothing is inherently “unstable,” that it’s possible for little bubbles of space-time (something) to form spontaneously (out of nothing), and that if a thing is not forbidden by the laws of quantum physics, it is guaranteed to happen.

Is nothing black or white?

Black. If there was nothing, there would be no light, and nothing to emit light, so you would see no light. Your eyes interpret the absence of light as blackness.

Is there something between nothing and nothing?

Although Heidegger described this as the fundamental question of metaphysics, the answer is quite straightforward at its base, if we are strictly examining a comparison between something and nothing. There is something because there is literally no such thing as nothing (at all), and there possibly never was.

Is it possible for there to be nothing?

Spinoza and Einstein, among many other great thinkers, subscribed to this view that it is impossible for there to be nothing. Nothing is only ever the absence of something in particular, but it is never truly no-thing, since the very label ‘nothing’ implies ‘something’.

Is there really something without anything?

There is something because there is literally no such thing as nothing (at all), and there possibly never was. Spinoza and Einstein, among many other great thinkers, subscribed to this view that it is impossible for there to be nothing.

Is nothing a state?

Nothing = no thing = absence of something. The lack of something can be considered a “state” in itself, when compared to an opposite state of a presence of thing (s), therefore nothing is something (a state, a concept, a void, etc.) I’m not sure how to define “something”, other than in relation to nothing.