Nothing .... you can't make something out of nothing

Contents

Nothingness
Answers
Cheats
But science says...
References

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Abstract: This article considers the fundamental concept of nothing as it relates to the creation of the universe and everything therein both physical and non-physical, aka metaphysical. It is proposed that all related questions and theorem, ranging from the scientific through to the philosophical, can be answered and accommodated if we assume a point of beginning at which God created something out of what is referred to as nothing. Concepts such as the Big Bang, cosmic eternal inflation, and quantum theory require this, yet the academy refuses to consider it, as to do so demands an extension beyond the constrained and unrealistic definitions of scientific and philosophical inquiry. They omit the concept of a creator - divine or otherwise - when theoretical frameworks such as evolution and common sense point to it. The present article does not negate the findings of science and philosophy; it merely addresses a section of the story of our universe which both fields of human endeavour have failed to do. A fear of God lies at the heart of this failure, as does the demonisation of the idea that there are elements of intelligent design on a cosmic scale in regards to our present reality.

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Bible: All things came into being through him [God], and without him not one thing came into being (John 1:3)

Bible: In him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible.... all things have been created through him..... He himself is before all things (Colossians 1:16-17)

Albert Einstein: The universe is rational .... In the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. I like to experience the Universe as one harmonious whole - the order, the harmony, the magnificence of creation! .... conscious of the stupendous laws that govern the Universe in perfect harmony. (Einstein 2025)

God [aka. Creator], n,. that which was at the beginning (Friedman 2026)

All things that have a beginning have a creator, and philosophically the God of the Bible is an entity that ontologically did not have a beginning (Huff 2026)

Nothing (video, Organ 2026)

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1. What is Nothing?

Nothing is the absence of something.

The term could refer to something physical, viz., Q: "What is in the box?" ... Answer: "Nothing."

It could also refer to something non-physical, such as a thought, feeling or statement, viz., Q: "What's wrong?" .... Answer: "Nothing."

Nothing is simply a concept, and not a reality.

If it was "real" it would be negated, as it would therefore be a something, whether it be physical or non-physical.

Nothing only exists in the context of an action whereby something has been removed from somewhere (e.g., "There is nothing left") or has never existed (e.g. "The universe did not exist prior to the Big Bang").

When we say "There is nothing in that box of toys", it is true in so far as we have taken all of the toys out of the box if, indeed, there were ever any in the box. Therefore the statement could actually say: "There is nothing LEFT in that box of toys."

You cannot create something out of nothing.

The universe was not created from nothing; at the beginning it was created from something.

By definition, that original something could not have been infinite, existing always, but itself must have had a beginning.

Nothing is therefore ultimately related to the concept of God, which is, by definition, that which was at the beginning (Friedman 2026). This is outlined in the following video.

Most people have no idea what God is, Rabbi Manis Friedman, 16 September 2026, YouTube, duration: 23.34 minutes.

Therefore, God is the beginning, the point of creation, the creator, the ultimate source of everything both physical and non-physical.

God is the only intelligent entity / thing / being that can, and did, create something from nothing.

All other entities can only make something from what has already been created.

All other outputs of creation can only have been formed from things previously created.

Therefore God ultimately created the material and non-material elements of which the universe and any and all precursors were made.

Belief is irrelevant, for there is no other explanation for the beginning, and the concept of God is not negated by disbelief or non-belief.

There is no alternative to God, because God is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question which cannot be otherwise answered.

Science has never addressed this issue, apart from assuming and then stating there was nothing before the beginning, or that "We just do not know" (Hossenfelder 2024).

Scientists, atheists and non-believers commonly have stated since the 1920s state that, according to the Big Bang theory and its variants, there was the spontaneous and unexplained creation of something at the beginning which, in a instance, led to the creation of everything which is now in existence, as outlined in the following video.

How did "Nothing" exist before the Big Bang?, Space Matters, 18 July 2025, YouTube, duration: 28.46 minutes.

No explanation is presented therein as to the beginning, and we are left with the original questions regarding the creation of everything and what actually is nothing. We are only informed about what happened following the moment of beginning.

In the context of human reality, there has never been nothing; there has always been something; we have only ever known something.

The Big Bang, for example, was created from something. It was not created from nothing. It was not the beginning.

The creation of something at the beginning involved a creator, or creative source, which is often labelled God, Creator, Source, Cosmic Consciousness, The One.

That something of creation is usually in the form of energy or material, i.e., something physical and/or non-physical (metaphysical).

"Something" is therefore composed of the physical and/or non-physical reality.

Therefore, "nothing" does not exist in the known universe at present, and never has, apart from at the beginning when, prior to that moment, there is said to have been nothing.

However, there was always something there, and that something is what we refer to as the physical realm or physical reality, and/or the non-material or energy realm, all of which were created by God from nothing.

This occurred during some point in the infinite past which we label here the beginning.

Nothing else exists beyond that which began with the beginning.

Everything has evolved since that point in time, and the God process of creation has continued, rather than the Big Bang process being used to explain the creation of everything since the beginning.

That post-beginning reality or realm is composed of (1) material (physical) elements and (2) non-material (non-physical) elements, separately or in combination.

Material is usually matter that we can touch, see, and is macroscopic.

The metaphysical (non-material) realm is microscopic, atomic or quantum, seemingly invisible, but actually real and sometimes composed, in part, of matter.

Thought, telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, and other non-material exchanges between individuals is real but immaterial.

These are instances involving the absence of matter, replaced by energy or something which can nevertheless be experienced, as in thoughts, feelings and emotions, which are non-physical and can be a form of formless energy or something else.

The latter can also be listed as contained within a non-physical / metaphysical reality.

Matter and energy are connected - E equals M times C squared - as Einstein revealed to the world.

"Nothing" in the form of "invisible" energy is therefore substantially not part of the physical realm, though there can be some overlap.

The physical realm and the energy (non-physical) realm are all that exist in the universe.

Therefore, in the creation of something from nothing, God manipulated both energy and mass to create the universe and everything in it.

"Nothing" does not exist in the created universe, as it is, by definition, the absence of something.

With God defined as an intelligent entity of infinite power and being, therefore nothing has never existed as long as the creator existed.

This is a concept which humanity cannot rationally comprehend, just as the term infinite / infinity has been defined to indicate something with no beginning and no end - once again, unfathomable to the human mind.

The concept of nothing, like the concept of God, is one which ultimately comes down to belief.

This belief only exists if we seek to understand, and are willing to create reasonable and rational scenarios and theorems to explain reality.

If we refuse to understand, and do not "believe", then we are irrelevant to the reality of existence.

By creating the concept of beginning, we can put the unknowing infinite to one side, and focus on understanding everything that has taken place since our defined point of beginning.

As Rabbi Manis Friedman pointed out, God is that which was at the beginning.

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2. An Answer

An explanation of nothingness was presented above. However, there is no answer to the human questions:

Why is there something, rather than nothing? Why is there anything at all? (Leslie and Kuhn 2013).

This questioning, which is presented in the video below, ignores the reality as outlined above, and is simply an example of human naivety masquerading as philosophical inquiry. With the refusal to accept the presence of a creator, in this instance what we refer to as God, then there is no answer to the questions put in the Leslie and Kuhn book of 2013 and the subsequent videos by Kuhn, such as the following.

Robert Kuhn, The mystery of existence, Closer to the Truth, 4 September 2020, YouTube, duration: 26.46 minutes.

There is, however, a possible scenario which can be presented to explain the existence of the universe in which human kind is present. That scenario, which was presented in the previous section, is basically as follows:

The universe was created by an intelligent entity - God, Creator, Source, Cosmic Consciousness - and the origin of that entity, or those entities, is unknown and unknowable in the present human context. Religions and science and philosophy have attempted to explain that concept. The only explanation is the existence of an intelligent creator, viz., God.

For humanity to try to explain the origin of reality beyond a point of origin of Source is pointless.

Human mind / consciousness cannot accept, or has not accepted, the premise that something can be created out of nothing, where nothing is the absence of anything - material or non-material, extradimensional or spiritual.

By nothing we here mean absolutely nothing, i.e., no physical reality, no ideas, no emotions, no dreams, no consciousness - fundamental or otherwise.

Degrees of nothing are therefore proposed by humans to facilitate the understanding of nothing, whilst actually ignoring the foundational essence of nothing. (Kuhn 2020).

However, if we vary our definition of nothing to include something, then we are cheating. Yet, that is what most philosophers and scientists have chosen to do.

A good example is the removal of the toys from a toy box to create nothing; or to deny the existence of something which once existed, such that "There is nothing to see here."

Nothing is the only unreality in existence, for there must always have been something if there is existence.

And God is the only explanation for that creation of something out of nothing at the beginning.

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3. Cheats

The following statements are necessary in order to support the scenario outlined above. They are key to the development of, and understanding of, that scenario whereby it is proposed that God is the beginning and the source of all something.

Nothing is the absence of something.
You cannot make something out of nothing.
A creator needs resources - physical and non-physical in order to make something.
You also need a starting point, a beginning, within the infinite past.
No theory for the origin of everything has yet been forthcoming from science.
The concept of God is as an intelligent energy which is able to create something out of nothing.
God is also the ultimate point of beginning.
E = mc2 enables the creation of the universe from energy into matter.
Therefore, God is the only answer, or solution, to the question of the origin of everything.

This scenario supports the creation of everything within the universe known to humanity. No other reasonable, rational explanation is possible, no matter how much science and others reject this out of hand. Their argument that "there is no proof" is wrong, because there is proof, and it has been presented above. The fact that it is proof which moves beyond the constraints of human scientific thought and into that of belief is irrelevant. Belief, in fact, is the basis for many scientific theories which though they may explain the facts, do not necessarily mean that they are the truth. The present writer, for example, is both a scientist and a believer, and sees no conflict in that position. The convolutions and twists and turns of scientists and philosophers in grappling with this matter is often extraordinary and hilarious, as seen in the following reference to the theory regarding a long, drawn out Big Bang:

You can also just push the Big Bang all the way back to minus infinity and say that for half of infinity very little happened and then the universe suddenly started expanding. It's not a very popular idea probably because the entire point is that it is infinitely lame. (Hossenfelder 2024)

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4. But science says...... "getting God out of the picture"

Science and philosophy largely ignore nothing, and specifically exclude any reference to God or consciousness or the metaphysical. All are treated with disdain, ridiculed, and thrown in the pseudoscience basket (Holt 2014). The resultant scientific gymnastics are often "weird", or seem crazy to the ordinary person, which is to be expected. Over recent decades heavy use has been made of quantum theory to present answers and explain the often inexplicable nature of the cosmos and the processes of creation and evolution.

For example, apparently energy from the Zero Point Energy which inhabits the whole universe is "pulled from the future" to assist the creation of something from nothing as the universe expands from various singularities over different points in time. Crazy? It may seem so on the surface, but it is actually close to the truth, whilst not actually getting there. Remember, science is a lot of proven and unproven theories and postulations, in the same vain as so-called pseudoscience.

Another example is Richard Feynman's statement that as space was not empty but contained Zero Point Energy, which he believed was timeless and infinite, therefore space / the universe was never "nothing" and nothing never existed, even before the Big Bang (Feynman 2026). This is then presented as evidence that there is no need for a creator, as Feynman would have us believe that this "infinite" form of energy is responsible for the spontaneous, creator-less evolution of the universe. Of course, this theoretical scenario is wrong; but, most significantly, it is a mere diversion from the actual task of explaining the origin of the universe. Numerous videos on social media platforms promote similar ideas, including the anonymous one below, which outlines the case against a beginning, nothingness and divine intervention, all of which - in reality - are nevertheless connected.

How did nothing exist before the Big Bang?, Late Science, 18 July 2025, YouTube, duration: 93.12 minutes.

Reference to a creator is absent from this video, as spontaneity is provided instead to explain creation. The present author rejects this, as it is nonsensical and conflicts with the set of cheats mentioned above. In a similar vein, presentations by Leonard Susskind outline academic arguments by physicists and the like which, whilst they address issues such as cosmic inflation - the expansion of the universe from almost nothing to something - do not consider the actual point of creation itself (Susskind 2026 a & b). For example, it is as if in regards to child birth, science and philosophy are only willing to address the evolution of the embryo, but not talk about the man and the woman and their role in the creation of the fertilized embryo which evolves into a human being. So it is that we get the following scientific theorem / description of the origin of time and space and the universe within the Late Science video:

According to our best scientific understanding, the Big Bang marks time zero, the beginning of the universe as we know it. In a single instant, all space, time, energy, and matter emerged from an initial singularity, a point of infinite density. In the first fraction of a second, the universe underwent rapid inflation, expanding faster than the speed of light in a space that was itself expanding. This set the stage for everything to come. One second after the Big Bang, the universe was a hot opaque soup of particles. Within minutes, the first light chemical elements formed in a process called primordial nucleiosynthesis. The early cosmos was extremely hot and dense. So hot that atoms couldn't yet hold together. Light or photons were constantly scattered by free electrons, meaning it couldn't travel far. For the first few hundred thousand years, the universe was essentially foggy and opaque. As expansion continued, the cosmos cooled. And fast forward 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe had cooled enough for electrons to combine with nuclei to form neutral atoms. This moment, the epoch of recombination, changed everything. (Late Science 2025)

Note that this explanation also postulates the beginning of time itself, another infinitely arrogant supposition on the part of humanity. And so it is that 13.8 billion years later, here we are. As noted above, the scientific and philosophical world's fear of God and refusal to accept the idea that there is some aspect of intelligent design behind our present reality, and beyond the mere evolution of life on Earth, has caused it to baulk at the logical presence of an intelligent entity as the creator, and in turn responsible for fine tuning the universe to the degree in which it is inherently stable, though active and expanding (Susskind 2026b). For example, this was partially expressed in the fact that, as revealed in the quote at the head of this article, Albert Einstein did not believe in a personal creator god, but rather viewed God as an impersonal embodiment of the harmonious, mathematical laws of nature, following on the teachings of Spinoza, and in addition spoke of his belief in a cosmic religion (Einstein 2025, Hermanns 1983).

The limitations of the scientific method and philosophical debate are profound. Like conspiracy theories, the term pseudoscience is often bandied around to mask truths which are, for a time and within the constraints of scientific ideology, considered unacceptable. The present article is hopefully a good example of that. It steers away from arguments around the presence or absence of physical and non-physical reality, and focuses on the foundational aspects of the concept, and reality, of nothing and nothingness as it relates to the creation of the universe and everything we know and are. Beyond this point we can go no further. When Brian Cox informs the world that "something terrifying existed before the Big Bang" he is not talking about God, but about yet another crazy scientific theory (Cox 2024). Science has an important role to play in any discussion around the issue of nothing. However, it needs to open itself up to all possibilities, scientific or so-called pseudoscientific, and critically engage with them, even if they fall into that aspect of reality which is unknowable and not subject to solid proof and endless replication. Like love, God is not a widget.

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5. References

Cox, Brian, Something terrifying existed before the Big Bang, The Speed Wind, 10 January 2024, YouTube, duration: 27.09 minutes.

Day, Joel, Brian Cox debunks Big Bang with 'creation story' which came before existence of universe, Daily Express, 23 July 2023.

Einstein Albert, How Einstein saw the Universe, Creative Systems Thinking, Facebook, 11 March 2025. Quoting Hermanns 1983.

Feynman, Richard, What if the Universe has no beginning?, Physics for Curious Minds, 23 August 2026, YouTube, duration: 28.30 minutes. [Video deleted 27/10/26]

Friedman, Rabbi Manis, Most people have no idea what God is, Rabbi Manis Friedman, 16 September 2026, YouTube, duration: 23.34 minutes.

Greene, Brian, Why time may never have had a beginning, Greene Cosmic Science, 23 September 2026, YouTube, duration: 51.59 minutes.

Hermanns, William, Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man, Branden Publishing Co., 1983, 151p.

Holt, Jim, Why does the universe exist - why is there something rather than nothing?, TED, 3 September 2014, YouTube, duration: 17.21 minutes.

Hossenfelder, Sabine, Brain Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait, what?, Sabine Hossenfelder, YouTube, duration: 9.03 minutes.

How did nothing exist before the Big Bang?, Spacedust, 28 June 2025, YouTube, duration: 192.53 minutes.

How did nothing exist before the Big Bang?, Late Science, 18 July 2025, YouTube, duration: 93.12 minutes.

How did "Nothing" exist before the Big Bang?, Space Matters, 28 July 2025, YouTube, duration: 28.46 minutes.

How did the universe start from nothing?, Beyond Horizons, 13 September 2024, YouTube, duration: 116.29 minutes.

How Hinduism explains the origin of the universe, Ventarus, 15 September 2025, YouTube, duration: 9.20 minutes.

Huff, Wesley and Steven Bartlett, No.1 Christian expert: The truth about Christianity! - The case for Jesus (Historian's Proof), The Diary of a CEO, YouTube, duration: 146.53 minutes.

If the universe came from nothing, where did nothing come from?, Pursuit of Wonder, 24 November 2022, YouTube, duration: 12.36 minutes. Fails to answer the question asked, whilst presenting a cartoon scenario which leads to the Big Bang.

Kaku, Michio, Who created the universe?, Michio Kaku, 22 September 2026, YouTube, duration: 31.08 minutes.

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Susskind, Leonard (a), Why the Universe has no beginning - time never started, SusskindSpeaks, 16 March 2026, YouTube, duration: 25.31 minutes.

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Last updated: 27 October 2026

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