Is the question "why does anything exist" troubling for physicists?

[Username34]

Are quantum physicists hopeful that a theory of everything can derive neccesity out of quantum fluctuations or whatever is said to have been the most fundamental existence?

The reason I ask is because the deepest question in philosophy is why does anything exist at all. But it doesn't seem to concern physicists.

 

[Borek]

the deepest question in philosophy is why does anything exist. But it doesn't seem to concern physicists.

Physics is not about "why?", but about "how?".

 

[Username34]

Physics is not about "why?", but about "how?".

(At the most fundamental level) If you can't account for why something exists, then you can't account for how it exists either.

 

[Baluncore]

If you can't account for why something exists, then you can't account for how it exists either.

If you are part of a system, you may examine that system from the inside, but not the external box that contains the system.

If everything did not exist, there would be no one to question why it does not exist.

 

[Username34]

If you are part of a system, you may examine that system from the inside, but not the external box that contains the system.

If everything did not exist, there would be no one to question why it does not exist.

I'm sure you're a bright guy. But you know the old saying : there's always somebody quicker, better, e.tc.. I am unfortunately that guy.

You can't derive neccesity out of function.

So have I then answered my question? Probably...

 

[berkeman]

I'm sure you're a bright guy. But you know the old saying : there's always somebody quicker, better, e.tc.. I am unfortunately that guy.

Having read thousands of posts by @Baluncore and a dozen or two by you, I doubt that assertion very much.

 

[berkeman]

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[berkeman]

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