Why is there something rather than nothing?

[blakpacman]

Depends on definition of "end". It most likely just cycles through different energy/matter states. Like the seasons, winter is not the end of time. Perhaps as this universe grows far apart and cold, and all energy has gone from it and dimension loses meaning, it folds in on itself into an infinitely dense singularity and a new big bang.

Also, we can't know if this is the only universe.

We don't know, no one knows. Time could be infinite into the past and infinite in the future with who knows how many big bangs, universe expandings, then galaxies, solar systems, and life forms developing back to universe contracting, engulfing everything into a dense singularity in an endless Twilight Zone mindfuck.

 

[jimmiebarton]