Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Exploring Reality, Creation, Multiverse, God, and “Nothing”

Why does anything exist? What was there from the very beginning? Total emptiness? Or did something exist out of necessity for all eternity? Could there have been a pivotal moment when “nothing” evolved into “something”? Why not complete emptiness? Is reality eternal? If not, would it at some point surrender itself to eternal absence? Is total emptiness even possible? If reality is brought into existence, does it require an external driver to initiate its being? Is its creation natural or supernatural? What’s the purpose behind reality? Does it just exist for no reason? What lies at the very core of existence? What’s behind the genesis of it all? Is our universe just one fragment of reality, or is it everything that exists? What triggered the creation of our universe? Was it a random process? Is it an effect, a product of something more fundamental? What’s the mechanism behind a universe generator? What does the realm that precedes our universe even look like? Why did the sequence of events that led to the current state of the universe occurred, and why this specific sequence was chosen over any other possibility? Reality could have been buried deep within eternal non-existence. Yet, against all odds, reality prevails… Why existence?

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:44 Where did the universe come from?
14:33 Chaotic eternal inflation creates a diverse & fractal multiverse
20:38 Why the universe is suitable for us?
25:32 Spontaneous creation out of nothing
33:00 A universe out of nothing with 0 energy
37:41 The ultimate mathematical multiverse
45:06 The supreme divine creator
52:30 Reality creating itself
59:45 Further analysis
01:22:07 End credits

Papers:
Calling for Explanation: The Case of the Thermodynamic Past State - Baras, Dan & Shenker, Orly R.
Why is there a universe at all, rather than just nothing? - Adolf Grünbaum
Stop Asking Why There’s Anything - Stephen Maitzen
Explaining Existence - Chris Mortensen
On Explaining Everything - Diana Taschetto
Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? - Sean M. Carroll
Spontaneous creation of the universe from nothing - Dongshan He, Dongfeng Gao, and Qing-yu Cai
The Principle of Mediocrity - Alexander Vilenkin
Many worlds in one - Jaume Garriga, Alexander Vilenkin
Eternal inflation and its implications - Alan H. Guth
Quantum Fluctuations in Cosmology and How They Lead to a Multiverse - Alan H. Guth
A brief history of the multiverse - Andrei Linde
Inflation, Quantum Cosmology and the Anthropic Principle - Andrei Linde
Inflationary Cosmology - Andrei Linde
Eternal inflation, bubble collisions, and the persistence of memory - Jaume Garriga, Alan H. Guth, Alexander Vilenkin
The Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
Is "the theory of everything'' merely the ultimate ensemble theory? - Max Tegmark
Shut up and calculate - Max Tegmark
Multiverses and Cosmology: Philosophical Issues - W. R. Stoeger, G. F. R. Ellis, U. Kirchner
Can the Universe Create Itself? - J. Richard Gott, III, Li-Xin Li

Books:
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics
The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything at All? - Robert Lawrence Kuhn, John A. Leslie
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes - Andrei Linde

PHIL HALPER (AKA SkyDivePhil) interviews:
Before the Big Bang 4 (Alan Guth interview): Eternal Inflation & The Multiverse
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Before the Big Bang 6 (Richard Gott interview): Can the Universe Create Itself?
   • Before the Big Bang 6: Can the Univer...  
Before the Big Bang 9 (Alex Vilenkin interview): A Multiverse from "Nothing"
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