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I am not sure whether I am asking this question at the right site of Stack Exchange.

If one thinks of a time when there was nothing in this void (I would not even say “in this universe” because the thought of “visualising as to what was there, when there was no universe” becomes sort of unimaginable) how something came from nothing?

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  • If it will vanish to nothing there is no problem in that.
    – user2777
    Mar 22, 2013 at 9:37
  • For Something to vanish is no problem but something to come in to existence is a problem ans hence this question. So where was the starting point? How that starting "instance" came into existence?
    – user4116
    Mar 22, 2013 at 9:42
  • Actually, for something to vanish entirely without a trace is just as much a problem as for something to come into existence out of nothing. Mar 22, 2013 at 10:02
  • You are right. After existence, the problem is from where it came and after vanishing the problem is where did it go and what remained in its place?
    – user4116
    Mar 22, 2013 at 10:20
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    Why is there something rather than nothing? This question was made 5 or more times in this site. Why one more? Mar 22, 2013 at 20:50

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The problem of Nothingness, and as part of that the question of how "something arises from nothing" is a perfectly philosophical question by any measure. It's even generated a recent amount of controversy on the nature of nothingness itself, and the origins of both physical matter and the laws governing it.

In part, it's a question without an answer, and some might say it's impossible to answer the question to begin with. Others might use it to argue for the existence of a Creator, but at least one religion reverses the distinctive question to argue that the actual mystery is how "nothing could possibly arise from something".

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