Infinite plane, energy,
Trembling foundation,
Destruction, creation.
This is the beginning;
Is it the Hand of God?
The Question Everyone Asks, Eventually.
Why am I here? Why is anything here? Why is anything?
It’s perhaps a tricky question to answer, and everyone has a different perspective, myself included. So I’m taking the time to write them down, roughly explaining my perspective on everything around me.
I’ll start off with a tricksy question, one that gets asked a lot, in various ways.
Do I believe in God?
No. No, I do not. Equally, I don’t believe in monkeys, but I know they exist, I’ve seen them. As to God, no, I can’t say I’ve even seen pictures. However, I’m not absurd enough to claim certainty on anything, whether it be belief, disbelief, or lack of belief. Which are, in my opinion, different things each. To clarify a little: I don’t believe in God, as such. Whether God exists or not, is a different matter. My belief doesn’t drive God’s existence, nor is it required in any way for him to exist or not exist. If he does exist, I’m sure he’s happy with it. If not, then I doubt he cares.
Which, in turn, leads me to my own perspective: Whether monkeys believe they exist, and whether they exist or not, are unrelated things. Whether I believe they exist is yet again, different. But they’re not dependent on one another. So no, I don’t believe in God, but I don’t claim to know for certain whether he exists.
Next, I’ll give you my “answer” to the main question.
Why is anything?
I don’t know. And frankly, it’s not that important to me. I mean, sure, it’s interesting and really quite intriguing. Did God create everything, or did something else? If God created everything, then everything could be proof God exists. But if God didn’t exist, then everything is proof God doesn’t exist. Meaning, ultimately, everything tells you nothing. Arguing complexity is another futile issue: Either God is more complex than the universe he created, which would require an even more complex creator to create God. Ad infinitum.
And that, right there, is my personal theory. Ad infinitum. Imagine an infinite plane of existence, stretching out in all possible directions (Including those beyond the third dimension, perhaps). Now, this infinite plane contains absolutely nothing but pure energy. Essentially, it’s an infinite void of nothingness, containing an infinite amount of intangible energy.
Imagine what would happen if one tiny, tiny bit of that were to shift or change just a miniscule bit. You’d probably say that ‘nothing’ can’t become ‘something’ for no reason. But I’ll get to that later on. See, that tiny change is the start of a universe. Ours, to be exact. It’s possible there are others out there (On an infinite plane, it’s likely there is one, somewhere inside infinity.) This, you could call, the Big Bang. Tiny in comparison to infinity, but the start of our entire universe as we know it today.
Thus, we explain everything. Kind of. An infinite supply of energy that somehow got tapped into to create a lot of physical matter, for some reason.
The why is where it gets tricky. So yes, why did the universe get sparked to life?
Again, my answer is simple. I don’t know. But perhaps this is where I may start giving a few surprising answers. Because, if I were to guess, there are two basic possibilities as to what sparked the Big Bang, or whatever mechanism was set off to create our little universe.
Possibility one: Because it could.
This takes a bit of an explanation, perhaps. But essentially, it’s probability: If you wait for long enough, anything can happen, and I do mean anything. If you walk against a wall often enough, you may possibly eventually just walk through. This, of course, is infinitely unlikely to occur within the next billion years and you’re most likely dead far beyond that. Getting stuck partially inside the wall is actually likelier, but not by much. Anyway, I’m digressing from my point.
Probability can make anything happen, given infinity. And guess what, if there’s an infinite plane of existence with an infinite amount of energy? Yes, everything that can happen, will happen. Makes sense to me, in a weird way. Don’t ask me for details: I don’t know.
Possibility two: God did it.
Yeah, perhaps probability isn’t so much the right theory as it’s just a sentient creature who’s either incredibly bored or has an incredibly peculiar sense of humour, that lives in that infinite plane, who decided he wanted to create a universe, put us in it somewhere and watched what happened. This is possible. Everything is possible as per possibility one.
So yeah, long story short: Whether God exists or not, the spark that started the universe did happen, and that’s why we’re all here. Beyond that, I don’t know. God could exist, he could not exist. Whether he does is about as much of a concern to me as I might wonder if an ant might be devoured by a termite in Antarctica right now. It could be true, but I’ve no proof nor certainty.
Essentially, either infinity spawned God, who spawned the universe, or infinity spawned the Universe, who spawned the idea of God. That’s what I think, but I claim no certainty as to which one is true. I just think these are the likely options.
If there’s one thing I do not believe in, it’s certainty. I don’t believe I can be absolutely certain one thing is true, or another. I just think everything is possible. If you think you know better, then you’re welcome to try and convince me, but you’ll need some pretty damned undeniable proof to manage that. Whether you’re an atheist or a theist, you’re just as fallible as I am, no matter how strong you think your theory of Everything is.