Will we know why had universe began, why there is something instead of nothing.
There’s a reason?
No. There is a range of hypotheses, from “none” to “because a supernatural creator willed so”, but they’ll stay hypotheses. You can study them and find which one makes more sense for you, but there will never be certainties.
We exist to maximize profits for shareholders. I thought your boss would have told you that.
Me laying in bed having an existential crisis.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
- Douglas Adams
That would explain the last few years.
Towels be with us.
First we’d need to establish whether there actually is a “why.” That’s an unspoken assumption you’re making, not something we know to be true.
I do not think we will. You can philosophize about it though but a scientific answer is unlikely.
The reason I think this is that I subscribe to the theory that the universe is the result of a black hole in another parallel universe. Black hole forms, eats matter and spews it back into a newly formed parallel universe, hence all the matter being present without us being able to explain how it came about. We call it the Big Bang. Likewise, we create new parallel universes with our black holes, the cycle continues. Always found it a neat explanation for it al.
But will we know ‘why’ our universe was created? No, we would need to look beyond the veil and that means going through a black hole and I do not see that happening anytime soon.
Problem with this theory is of course that matter keeps being flung around, what it the point of origin and will that deplete or be recycled?Fascinating stuff and this theory I talk about is most probably wrong as I also believe we are not capable of handling this query.
I have the same theory about white holes being big bangs but black holes are constantly taking in matter. Do small black holes produce the same level of parallel universe? Do super massive black holes produce bigger universes? Does it matter since the universe they spawn would also grow infinitely? Since the universe will experience heat death, does that mean each subsequent universe will have less and less matter until there’s a final black hole that forms?
I read an article about how there’s theoretically black holes older than the universe, which spawns even more fun questions.
Is this question an example of the halting problem?
It has been said here already but I will say it again, there is no why. Why is a human thing, perhaps an animal thing, at least it is connected to conscious thought. When it rains you do not ask why you can only research how. This is a difficult lesson, we live in a human culture and so feel comfort in being able to ask why people do things as well as how. Not having the why attribute for the physical universe feels cold and inhuman, but the universe is inhuman, even if it’s difficult that is the deal.
Wait, is the big “Why,” with a capital W, just us personifying nature? We’re such social animals that we need to personify everything. People looking for a WHY are ultimately just expecting nature to act like a human being! We’ve evolved as social animals. We need to be used to thinking of actions having causes. Nothing just happens in a social community. If your food stores are suddenly and unexpectedly low, someone stole them. Oh, that nice tool/weapon? You got it from your brother-in-law. You owe him. We have evolved in environments where we need to keep social scores and disperse responsibilities. It’s in our literal, social, and cultural DNA to attribute actions in our environment to people.
But then we also end up applying that to nature. It’s pareidolia at a cultural level. And so we ask Why, with a capital W. Some might make fun of the ancients for personifying forces of nature and raisin them up as Gods. But we’re no different. We do the same damn thing. We’ve just replaced the Gods with “Why.”
Ultimately, it is extremely rare in nature for there to be just one of anything. Phenomena rarely occur alone. Why should this not extend to the very existence of Universes, independent Big Bangs? Maybe the Big Bang is some incredibly rare quantum fluctuation in the vacuum that occurs by odd chance once every “ten to the ten to the ten to the ten…” years. Some freakishly long length of time. But who cares? There’s no one around to count the empty years. But once in a very blue moon, in some random patch of the vast infinite, infinitely expanding space time, a Big Bang occurs. It has its course and eventually decays down to nothing, returning to the quantum foam from which it sprung. In time, everything decays down to photons, those photons are stretched beyond the cosmic horizon. A Big Bang happens, a Universe thrives, and it decays to nothing. Awhile later, another Big Bang, etc.
So while a Universe is a rare thing, it is not unique. But in turn, it does give a sense of meaning. Suddenly we are now a part of a grand infinity of time and space. The concept of the Wheel of Time is made literal! And that is the thing that whole religions are built on. There are ways to find meaning in an infinite circle.
Solved problem. It’s 42. Next.
Yes.
We’re entirely too removed from the start to know with 100% certainty. The best we can hope for is a plausible theory.
If there was nothing there also wouldn’t be anyone asking “why is there something rather than nothing”. It’s the kind of question that can only be asked in a universe that exists. Then answer to “why?” would basically be that because an unlikely even occured. It could just as well have not, but it did and now you’re here.
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I disagree, although it depends on where you are. Ask it in a theological faculty and it will be an everyday discussion.
I do like the image in Genesis that all was darkness until the sea and the light was created. It’s just a pleasant mental image that suddenly someone turned on the lights to me, and little by little here we all are.
