So here's my answer to the "mind-fuck" question of "Why is their something instead of nothing?"
First off their can never be Nothing. Ever(speaking in natures terms). Their are always particles, atoms and virtual particles popping in and out of existence. That's why the before big bang question is so hard to answer(but I wont get into that).And there you have it. There is always something because some particles pop into existence spontaneously and without cause. Which kinda disproves the "everything has a cause" argument. So that's my take. What's your take on this?

My opinion of the universe:

Why is there something instead of nothing? No reason. It just happened that way.

Question anwsered, thx Vtoon.

You haven't answered the question "Why is there something instead of nothing?". Your answer just says "there is something". It just leads on to the new question of why matter keeps popping in and out of existence.

Quote from Zed

You haven't answered the question "Why is there something instead of nothing?". Your answer just says "there is something". It just leads on to the new question of why matter keeps popping in and out of existence.

Shit son, I can't explain that. You need a scientist for that shit. Put I did skip it didn't I? I was just saying that their is something therefore their is nothing.

"There is something, therefore there is nothing," would be objectively wrong, but I assume you made a typo.

I wouldn't say you change much with this. I think the "why is there anything" generally refers to reality as a whole, without which there wouldn't be anywhere for the matter to pop in and out of existence anyway.

I think Zed is right if we are talking about the existence of matter you can't separate the something from the nothing, as soon as there is something the nothing ceases to exist wich means that the nothing doesn't exist and this also means that the nothing is the only thing that can remains in the inexistence

There is only different degrees of how much something is clustered up in a given space, in comparison with how much nothing there is. All matter is made up of tiny, moving particles, and in between these tiny moving particles is tiny, infinite empty space (read: everything is made up of the same energy). Through this, all matter is really just part of the same infinite universe.

There is never a cause. There is no importance to life. In the next moment, through some unexpected random event, you may die. A car may suddenly drive through your wall. A plane might crash into your house. And when you die, the rest of the universe will not even acknowledge it. You are a skin flake, ready to die, fall, and turn into dust at any moment. All of your efforts and goals and religions are futile constructions of the mind to give purpose to an existence that has no purpose. You are just a consciousness in a part of a thing bigger than you realize, and yet you focus on the past and the future instead of acknowledging that the fact that you exist to start with is amazing.

//don't know where i was going with this, and i doubt anybody will get the message anyway so i'm not going to continue

Don't tell me how to live my life, Mr. Penal Colony.

Quote from Scarecrow

There is never a cause. There is no importance to life. In the next moment, through some unexpected random event, you may die. A car may suddenly drive through your wall. A plane might crash into your house. And when you die, the rest of the universe will not even acknowledge it. You are a skin flake, ready to die, fall, and turn into dust at any moment. All of your efforts and goals and religions are futile constructions of the mind to give purpose to an existence that has no purpose. You are just a consciousness in a part of a thing bigger than you realize, and yet you focus on the past and the future instead of acknowledging that the fact that you exist to start with is amazing.

//don't know where i was going with this, and i doubt anybody will get the message anyway so i'm not going to continue

You must be a nihilist trollface.jpg.

what's a 'nihilist trollface.jpg'

Quote from Fusion

what's a 'nihilist trollface.jpg'

Nihilist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

and I think you would know what a trollface is.

How did you manage to ruin that? I even put quotations around it so you would know it was a single entity.

The problem is that we don't really know what "nothing" is. We can produce a vacuum, but that's not nothing. It's still bound by the time space continuum. The particles aren't necessarily popping in and out of existence.