Why is there something instead of nothing?

Since the Big Bang was first theorized in 1964, our knowledge of our existence has greatly increased. The implacable thirst for knowledge that we have running deep in our veins never ends, and with it, our desire to know where we come from and why we come in first place, instead of not coming to existence at all. We are surrounded by matter everywhere we look. Even when we don’t look, and we dream instead, our minds bring us into worlds where matter is still omnipresent. Yet why is there all this matter in the first place? Why do we have planets, galaxies, laws of physics, love, societies; just something, instead of nothing? Since Leibniz first laid out this question over 300 years ago, we still don’t know the answer. This is a dangerous question because it makes us think of concepts to which we, as humans, don’t have the capacity to reason about. And it can overwhelmingly blow our minds.

When posing a question it’s important to understand if we’re trying to get to a reason or a cause for what we are looking for. When we ask why the professor arrived late to class we’re looking for the reasons that made him unpunctual; he waited in line for longer than usual, there was traffic, he fell on his way… When we instead ask why this month is colder than usual we’re looking for causes that led to the change in weather, temperature, precipitation. In this case, we try to…