Why does the universe exist?

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  1. Saint

    Saint Valued Senior Member

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    Why does the universe exist?
    Can cosmology explain?
     
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  3. Xelasnave.1947

    Xelasnave.1947 Valued Senior Member

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    Probably you are looking for the Philosophy section but short answer...for me.
    Alex
     
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  5. foghorn

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    To store stuff.
     
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  7. Beer w/Straw

    Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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  8. Jeeves

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    It's a platform for god's tweets.
     
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  9. Baldeee

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    Because.
    It can come up with ideas as to how it came about, almost all of them untestable by science.
     
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  10. exchemist

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    No, no, it's all to do with the enfolding and unfolding of functional mathematical potentials, inevitably leading to quantum consciousness. (See alternative theories

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  11. Write4U

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    Bohmian Mechanics.
     
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    There is no why, no motive. It was mathematically "necessary" that the universe would emerge from the mathematical pre-BB conditions. An example of "Necessity and Sufficiency"

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    The sun being above the horizon is a necessary condition for direct sunlight; but it is not a sufficient condition, as something else may be casting a shadow, e.g., the moon in the case of an eclipse.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency#Necessity
     
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  13. Saint

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    How the universe exist instead of does not exist?
     
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  14. Beer w/Straw

    Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    How high is up;?
     
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  15. kx000

    kx000 Valued Senior Member

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    Reason is faith, purpose is the wish to be
     
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  16. Saint

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    why not there is nothing exists?
     
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  17. Seattle

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    why not there is something exists?
     
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  18. Saint

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    because something comes from nothing,
    nothing is the initial state.
     
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  19. Seattle

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    How do you know nothing is the initial state? What is your definition of nothing? Is it the base state? In quantum physics the base state is non-zero.
     
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  20. arfa brane

    arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    The universe exists so humans could evolve and ask why does the universe exist.
     
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  21. Saint

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    When energy first exist in universe?
    High School's Physics says energy cannot be destroyed nor created, is it true?
    Where did energy come from?
     
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  22. Seattle

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    In this Universe since that's all we can observe. It says nothing about before this Universe.

    If "God" created the Universe as you believe then that also would show that something came from nothing.
     
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  23. Write4U

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    Tegmark's Mathematical Universe; Mathematical universe hypothesis (MUH) ?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis
     
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