i’m just playing with words here - nothing more, believe me.
it really is a game for me to know as much as i can about everything. i simply like it. i’m interested in lots of fields, and am genuinely curious. anyway, for as long as i can remember, i always asked myself ‘why is there “something” rather than “nothing”’? mostly, because it requires no background knowledge really to be able to participate to the conversation. although science is really interesting, i don’t really know what i’m talking about.
for this question, i feel like the words, the concepts have to be defined here, in order to understand what it implies. words are words and the existence of any of them have no cause really. i mean, does the word “hello” have any reason to be what it is? it could’ve been “hilo” or any word you could possibly imagine or make up, no? language was invented to facilitate interactions, and so on and so forth, but we could’ve probably been speaking completely different languages by now.
where i really want to get is we know, in our language, the definition and the multi-purposes of the word “something”. on the other hand, i feel like the word “nothing” has no real impact. as someone said, “it may be that there's no such thing as "nothing," and that it is simply an abstraction of the human mind.”
Could the answer to why is there “something” rather than “nothing” be because there is no such thing as “nothing”? because there is always some thing even when there doesn’t seem to be. When my friend asks me what’s in the cup and i answer nothing, it omits the existence of all that it really contains.
if there is always some thing, then what was the “something” before all of this “something”?
in the end, i really haven’t pushed the human knowledge on this topic - nor was it my intention, but the purpose was simply to put my two cents in an ageless discussion.
p.s.: is there anybody out there?
