Why is there anything rather than nothing meaning?

When we ask “why is there something rather than nothing?” we are asking why anything exists, or why things of a particular sort of exist (e.g., concrete things). To say that some law of nature holds is not to say that anything exists, or that anything, say, concrete, or contingent exists.

What is the color of 5?

blue
Grapheme-color synesthetes perceive numbers and letters as colors: a five may be a blue number, while the number two is green. Composer Oliver Messiaen, whose synesthesia is well-documented, perceived sounds as color, and wrote music that depicted the colors he saw.

How was the universe created from nothing?

This gives us a startling picture of the big bang, that our universe was born perhaps from the collision of two universes (the big splat theory), or sprouted from a parent universe, or simply popped into existence out of nothing. So universes are being created all the time.

Did the universe begin with nothing?

But now Vilenkin says he has convincing evidence in hand: The universe had a distinct beginning – though he can’t pinpoint the time. After 35 years of looking backward, he says, he’s found that before our universe there was nothing, nothing at all, not even time itself.

How did something come from nothing?

In a way ‘something comes from nothing’ all the time but at the same time ‘something becomes nothing’ simultaniously. For example: burning hydrogen and oxygen creates water and heat. The water did not exist prior to the burning, and in a sense ‘came from nothing’ same as the heat.

Is God the first cause?

Being a First Cause is in fact an attribute of God, but this is enough to insure (on the basis of his faith) the truth of the statement “God is the First Cause.”. The following argument, however, would not be valid for Aquinas . The First Cause exists. The First Cause is God. Therefore, God exists.