Why Being
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A simple question that has occupied the human mind for three or four thousand years:
Why does the universe exist at all?
If nothing ever came into existence, would that state need to “manifest” itself? No, why should anything exist? As soon as something (a universe) exists, then questions begin. What is responsible for the existence of the universe? Why this universe? Why not another universe?
“We can all imagine alternative universes in our dreams, but these other universes don’t exist—they remain only in imagination. So why is this one universe the exception?”
Does the universe need a factor to keep it constantly in existence? Does it make sense to speak of something as “the origin of all existence”? Or are such questions meaningless?
Science assumes the existence of the universe. Science progresses by exploring the nature of the world we face, asking different questions and answering them. Every day we witness extraordinary results, sometimes contradicting previous findings.
Perhaps today’s science cannot answer with certainty why the universe exists, but if we look back, we see that once Galileo’s only wish was to answer how many planets exist in our solar system. Today, this question has become one of the obvious facts, and surely one day the answer to the question of why the universe exists will become self-evident to us.
At that time, we will be answering questions that don’t even occur to scientists today—like answering the most important question of humanity so far: where did we come from, for what purpose, and where are we going?