ft. Jason Resch, the creator of AlwaysAsking.com / Why is there something rather than nothing? Why not nothing? Today, we discuss the most obvious and perhaps the most mysterious question that humanity can pose. We first start off by defining what “nothing” is and whether it’s achievable by any means. By hypothesizing the possibility of something emerging out of nothing and the existence of self-existing things, we attempt to analyze the essence of candidates for self-existence such as logic, truth, numbers, possibility, the universe, a higher plane, and consciousness. We briefly talk about the idea of faith and the connection between religion and science. We also explore the three modes of existence(Math, Matter, Mind), their relations, and which one of them is the most fundamental. We, then, discuss whether reality could be replicated using information and computation and what role they play in shaping the structures of a universe. Finally, we end our conversation by discussing the social consequences of finding out the answer to the question and how we can popularize the trait of always asking across the public.