How Did Our Universe Start From Nothing? 

To the question "who made nothing" I admit it's me. I'm always doing nothing.

After watching the whole thing, I am now more confident that I know "Nothing."

Our brains do not possess the circuitry to comprehend "nothingness". We are doomed to understand only what our senses can perceive

Who knew I would actually be watching something about absolutely nothing literally?

The Universe has never "started", nor will it ever "end"... It is ETERNAL. And INFINITE.

No matter what humans think they know or create we know nothing.

Nothing. and. Something are human concepts that our brains are hardwired to expect is the way thing are. The universe is under no obligation to act the way we want and expect it to

In a book I read when I was younger, the universe was characterized as breathing. The interval of breath was called a 'skanda'. This was a Buddhist or Hindu term, I think. Inhale into nothing, then exhale into everything. I think consciousness is the key. Consciousness is what spans all these impossibly huge distances and scales. If I can perceive it, I can go to the outer edge of the universe, or inside a single atom.

In the beginning, the universe was created. That made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded ever since as a bad move.

I sit back with a glass of red wine and a cigar and act like I understand Quantum Physics :)

nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

Hell yeah, all us old guys who were there know.

Empty space is not "nothing," it is "space." (spacetime).

I used to think about this when I was a kid in bed and it disturbed me.

When I die the world will not exist because all of you and everything around you are just a creation of my mind.

An excellent and courageous presentation! A breath of fresh air on the subject of Nothing. You are to be commended for not dodging the issue, or worse yet, rephrasing the original question and answering your own modified and pointless version of it. No-one expects that you solve the greatest existential question facing humanity in a single video; when it comes to Nothing, just authentically introducing and exploring the subject with clarity equates with a great leap forward. 👏🏻

Empty space is still something. An empty universe is still something. Nothing is the absence of everything..including space and time. Think again.

Black holes give birth to singularities, the big bang was the expansion of and the possible creation of a singularity....i propose that the formation of every black hole could be the creation of another universe.

Electroshock involved!⚡️⚡️⚡️

Another video idea: how consciousness was created. That's another question we will never truly know the answer to.

The thing that really hurts my head is when I try to imagine precisely "where" this nothing was before it became the something...LOL. I guess I can envisage a pitch-black, "matterless" space which to all intents and purposes LOOKS like nothing, and may not even be matterless, but is just something which lacks any illumination....a bit like the darkest depths of the ocean if you like. But the leap between something "looking like nothing" (to the human eye) and it actually BEING nothing....is....I guess.....the bit that one struggles to process.

The universe is something. Even empty space is something. You can ask “how” or “from what did everything come into being.”

I just love all your videos! You crack me up!!! You’re getting there!!! The place is becoming amazing!!! Thx!!!

The fact is that we don't yet understand all facets of physics. We can only perceive a limited number of dimensions, but there may be hidden powers or phenomena that we haven't discovered yet. Our creator obviously exists. Everything fits perfectly.

Perhaps dark matter is the "nothing" that virtual particles emerge from. Intriguing video 🤔

What supported the singularity? Space didn't exist yet.

Nothing is the limitations of the Observer, not the objective matter of a true Void. We are not adapted to observe what is in a Void, but the Voids are there. First the field of space time cannot enter a Void, then light cannot propagate into the Void to give us a way to either go there or see what light does upon entering the Void. So while access is denied, you grapple with our opinions about something or nothing concepts.

Nothingness is just human definition vs Nothingness is more than Nothing.

"Nothing will come of nothing, speak again." - King Lear

That was narrated in a very poetic manner.

Dimensional multiverses solve the problem of the impossibility of a true “void”. The theory is the best model I’ve seen to explain dark matter and dark energy as well. Basically every time a black hole is created the energy releases from ripping a hole in that universe forms a big bang in a brand new universe.

How about this, if Nothing is Something, and Something is part of Everything, then Everything is Nothing. Or if you were Everything, what would there be left to be? Nothing. But if you are everything then you would also be nothing. So the All is One with Everything & Nothing, but in this spiritual realm there is no Space nor Time. This is a fact, science cannot tell you about.

Have you ever noticed that you can't measure time without comparing it to something moving, and you can't measure motion without time 🤯

It didn't. There was never nothing.

The discussion on nothing is the first part of my book that I published on Kindle Amazon in 2012. The scientists still don't seem to understand it.

We can not fathom nothingness, nor can we understand a "time" before time.

Nothing doesn't need to be created since the mere absence of something results in nothing.

There was never "nothing", nor has there ever been. What we discard as empty void, is in fact every bit as substantial as the densest matter known to man. Particles popping into and out-of existence... no such thing. All that ever was or will be; it exists and has never stopped existing. The real difference lies within Humanity's limited abilities of sensory and perception. "Nothing" is a concept we created; a category for things which are beyond our cognition.

Very informative and well done! Thank you!

Something existed. We just can't comprehend it.

Our knowledge is limited. When we theorize dark this and that it only means we don't understand the Universe. While our "leaders" spend our wealth on killing others we could be escaping this gravity well/spacetimepimple and solve those mysteries.

If nothing exists then it's something. How can we have something from nothing? 0 is central point for all the positives and negatives combined. Is "nothing" central to something we know only one side of?

great video, very professional and thorough.Liked and subbed

Can I just point out that time can not have a beginning. A beginning is a measurement of when an event occurs in relation to time. You need a running timeline to exist already if you are to talk of beginnings and ends, therefore, by default, the concept we call time has always existed. This makes the likelihood of there having once been "nothing" very small indeed. We only know the universe was incredibly small, hot and dense 14 billion years ago. That does not equate to it having emerged from nothing,

How can something so incredibly complicated as an atom come from nothing ???

Even nothing is something.

Its better to think of nothing as the absence of even space and time ,rather space and time without anything in them

this was so beautiful explaining that the universe and nothingness are in a symphony of a harmonic ballet.

Nothing never existed ever.

Because we cannot see in 4D, every clip showing the big bang appears as a point of light which explodes outward in an empty black void…this is wrong. The concept of nothing means not even a void for you to imagine, waiting to be filled. You can only see the universe, even to imagine it, from inside.

Can’t have something without nothing. It takes two to make a thing go right. It takes two to make it outta sight!

we live in a society where they told you resting is lazy. don’t believe them! we shall not overwork ourselves just to prove we’re doing “something” to ppl who truly won’t care in the end.

Even though the Universe is finite in time, there has never been a time when something did not exist.

To say that the Universe "experienced" the Big Bang is a little like saying that a fetus "experienced its own conception". Worse actually because the foetus is an evolved "experience machine", while whether or not the Universe (without humans) is "experiencing" anything is a matter of some serious metaphysical debate. Not a scientific debate, since this notion is in principle - unfalsifiable and is thus - untestable.

What we know for sure is that there is something. And there is no room for nothing in something.

The most magical question ever. I look forward to the riddle being solved one day🙏✨💙

Firstly, if the universe came from "nothing" then it cannot have been caused as there was no "thing" to cause it. It would be an acausal event as there was nothing to cause it to exist. Thus looking for a reason is a pointless question if it came from nothing. For it to have a cause there HAS to be some "thing" to cause it, but that just shunts the question to that thing itself. Where did that "thing" come from that caused the Universe? And if we find an answer to that "thing" then the question just shunts to what caused the thing that caused the thing that caused the Universe and so on ad infinitum. You either have to accept there must be an acausal event at some point that was not preceded by any thing, or you have a never ending chain of causation which never has a final answer. There are no alternatives to this. Secondly, if it was a random event that caused it then we can have no theory to explain it because you're asking for a set of mathematical equations that randomly spits out a universe. How would that work? How can you have an equation that comes out with a random solution when the mathematics is determinstic? Even if you could it would be a meaningless equation because it only comes out with random solutions. How would you decide which random solution is correct? It also implies that mathematics exists independently of existence itself. Where did that come from? We're back to my first point again. Whichever way you want to slice it, the answer to existence is an unanswerable question. You don't even know the Universe existed before you thought you yourself did. "I think therefore I am" does not mean before you thought "I think" anything else was here. If the Universe is random it cannot rule out that it came into existence at the precice moment I considered I existed. It could all be inside "my head" if that even exists. It seems like I'm inside this body but am I? Does anything exist apart from this "thing" that I think is thinking? The question quickly descends into a philosophical mess that doesn't get us any close to an answer. To my mind the real absurdity is the concept of "nothing". It's a human concept and by definition it's meaningless.

Nothing cannot self-create out of Infinity - our Universe must have been created by Someone

I hate the phrase "Something can't come from nothing". We have never had an example of true nothing. How do we know something can't come out of LITERALLY nothing?

There is no such thing as nothing. Therefore something could not have come from nothing. The universe is eternal. It's always been here.

If we’re alive, the forever existence is the only explanation for this enigma. As long as we’re alive, we demand an explanation to existence, once we’re dead, someone alive will determine in their perspective that we’re dead and nothing is what we’re experiencing.

Nothing burger

This brings back awesome memories of my cousin and I when we were 11 years old frieking out mentally over the question, "When was the beginning of nothing"? When we really try to thing about it we'd have a brain overwhelm. Ha, I miss that. But later I got some of that back from LSD.

I like H.P. lovecraft’s idea on the horror of cosmology.

your problem is you assume your nothing statement is correct, that isnt necessarily so

Nothing will rip something apart and vice versa, but this always occurs at a single point of interference. The universe is expanding everywhere.

Something is nothing, and nothing is Something. Therefore, neither can exist.

" Can nothing exist"...what sort of question is that? Particles spontaneously coming into existence? from where? Out of nothing? No cause? What nonsense.

Absolute nothing is what I've always thought death would be like

People think that "Nothing" is the default state. Clearly, there is "Something" (the Universe), therefore, there must be a cause external to this universe. I think this is erroneous. First: By definition, "Nothing" - the state of non-existence - is impossible. This hypothetical state of non-existence must also include Time - but, if there was nothing, then there was no clock ticking either. The length of time of "Nothing" is 0, by its own definition. Second: What it is being observed is that, the universe had a beginning and that the universe has always existed. These aren't two contradicting ideas, since the universe begun when the clock started ticking. There wasn't a before. You may say: "Nothing" cannot create "Something". And, I say "Nothing" cannot stop "Something" from coming into existence either.

What is space?

I watched a show about nothing for years. It ended with the four main characters in jail.

The answer is simple. The universe did not start from nothing. Nothing cannot exist. There's always been something.

Since logic tells you nothing is the absence of anything. Then logic tells you nothing cannot make something. Also, to have something, you have to have something first. In the case of our universe this something, has to be greater than all we can see and conceive.

"Nothing" is not something that exists in the natural world -- so no, it was not created from nothing; and there's no reason to take it as given that it was created.

Fields are everywhere. There is no nothing. Theres still fields where there's no matter.

Empty space is mot "nothing" as you described as having quantum fluctuation. You will never get around the necessity of having something, or Someone, always having been there, and now.

Nothing by definition could not exist. If nothingness existed, it would be something and not nothing. Nothingness could not be anything, not even nothing. If something "is", then it exists. Nothingness cannot exist.

The law of thermodynamics states that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. it is physically impossible in our known universe for something to be created from nothing. Therefore, the universe had to start from some point with matter.

Nothing is the only thing that doesn't exist prove me wrong 😂😂😂😂

True nothingness is impossible to imagine or conceive. As soon as you think it, there's something. Space is something even if it's empty. Try to eliminate space, and what you have is death.

Wonderfully researched, written and explained.

I hate doing nothing. I never know when I am done.

Expansion of this universe leads to nothing, that creates a rebirth of a new one.

there is always something, there is no such thing as nothing, only states of matter we cannot comprehend

Even "Nothing" comes from something.

Excellent video. Thank you

Why is it so hard for you to give God His Glory, God made everything including time. Give praise to God all of you humans! The Lord God is Awesome and wonderful powerful and frightening, I love God and admire his creation!

There's no such a thing as "nothing".

how it started is beyond our understanding...and someone started it....

Thanks for posting.

What annoys me is when people use an argument for a creator, but then attribute it to an evolved primate born 2000 years ago.

The big bang tells us the dance of nothing and something came from a single point. At Zeno's law, the point will continually expand and will not vanish. Something out of its body must produce another something.

Nothing never existed. There was always something.

This is only my opinion who interest both science and buddhism. Empty space is not that nothing but it is something that everything come from. Empty space exist forever, cannot be changed, cannot be destroy, no time, no material , no memory, no feeling , no thought. Only pure consciousness there and that where we all came from. We are immortal, we exist forever but without selfness, like a droplet in the ocean. And that where we have to go back, and that is called nirvana in buddhism.

Who made nothing? GOD

BIG BANG? Bullshit. It was all already here.

Men will come and go, but will never unravel d riddle and mystery of existence!

I feel like nothing, a lot of emptiness. Maybe one day I too can be a universe.

No one made nothing.