(September 5, 2013 at 12:37 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: As far as 'why is there something?'; until 'why wouldn't there be?' is overcome as the alternative hypothesis, it can't be shown to be a meaningful question.
That's a rather different question from the OP's I think.
It appears that in Quantum Physics nothing (or nothingness more precisely) is unstable.
The best explanation I have seen is in the example of matter and anti-matter colliding. They totally eliminate each other and nothing remains.
The birth of the universe is that process in reverse.
As long as the net energy state of the universe is zero you don't need a first cause. Its another example of: "Shit happens" (which seems to be my phrase of the day today).
The question of "why this universe?" is harder other than the trite - why not?
