Probability

As Shakespeare immemorially said, “To be or not to be”. The great question, still unanswered. If it is not to be, then nothing. If we are to be, than it is as Vonnegut observes in Deadeye Dick, “To be is to do – Socrates. To do is to be – Jean-Paul Satre. Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra.”  The mystery of existence is how it all came to be. I have no answer for that, no does any scientist or prophet or philosopher. Could existence be similar to Schrodinger’s Cat, it both is and isn’t. Maybe once the origins of the Cosmos are discovered everything will vanish into nothing. Perhaps more than nothing, upon learning of the beginning after having had eaten of the tree of knowledge, existence will cease and also be erased, never existing in the first place. Imagine if everything that has had happened suddenly never had had happened. A seemingly metaphysical impossibility. Or it could be as Adam’s wrote, “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” For me though, it is enough to know what Mungi says, “Given infinite nothingness and unending eternity, so long as the probability of spontaneous existence is greater than zero, no matter how infinitesimal the odds, it is enough for us to have arose from nothing.” – Zachary