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[–] MataVatnik 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

There reason there is something instead of nothing is survivorship bias. Since nothing is nothing, including no time, there will ALWAYS be something because nothing can't exist outside of something.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So, nothing doesn't exist?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

What is everywhere, then?

Nothing.

[–] NorthWestWind 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Feathercrown 3 points 3 months ago

In the year negative never and also now, nothing is nothing. When? NO

https://youtu.be/wjU9BA68zyU?si=Nry0S2foJmRaNj1f

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's pretty nifty, I would say.

[–] MataVatnik 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I don’t know is on third.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Nothing only exists when you have something to compare it to.

[–] Buddahriffic 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ok, but why is there something to experience survivorship bias? Why is any of this at all instead of just not anything?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The godhead got bored and felt like playing hide-and-seek.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Alexstarfire 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No reason. It's just that when there wasn't anything to experience it, nobody asked themselves that question.

So the question is a consequence of our existence, and that's the answer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This particular flavour of survivorship bias is also called the anthropic principle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Honestly the only way to make sense of any of this that I have ever found is panpsychism, Advaita Vedanta etc.

This is all just a “dream” or non-computational “simulation”. Everything is consciousness. Physics is an emergent feature of consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Your consciousness is something though. This doesn't answer the question as it assumes your consciousness has to exist, to experience survivorship bias. Why is there anything, including tour consciousness, rather than nothing? And your scenario, where there is nothing and something, and your consciousness is in the something, presumes a reality with something. So if doesn't answer the question. It's like someone asking 'why does 1+1=2' and you say 'because 0+1+1=2'

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Should mix in normal ones like

Why do some farts feel really warm?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Ya I guess you are right, I've felt it but never looked it up

[–] FuglyDuck 7 points 3 months ago

and "cat photos"

[–] Nuke_the_whales 1 points 3 months ago

Valentina sauce

[–] j4k3 22 points 3 months ago

Why do all of his sessions end in entropy.

... I don't even understand his euphemisms any more

[–] yokonzo 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641 7 points 3 months ago

Yes of course. Its just that, when that happens, all the atoms start falling apart, or clumping together.

Things that weren't radioactive before? Now they are. Iron in your blood? Radioactive.

This is, of course, sub-optimal.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Best I can do is, QFT...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on you googling those questions will lead to nothing else other than seo spam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

PBS Spacetime 🙏

[–] niktemadur 3 points 3 months ago

Go harder!

Relativity approaching the Planck level.

Wave function and the Quantum Eraser experiment.

Quantum molecular physics and time crystals.

[–] EvolvedTurtle 2 points 3 months ago

I was litterly just down that brain rabbit hole