1. Why is there something rather than nothing?
One explanation we can give, which 'New Muin Scientist' put forward, is that it may be because of the nature of vacuum energy. A random fluctuation in the vacuum may have been enough to create matter out of nothing - though, of course, that leaves the question of where the vacuum energy came from. Or there may have been a universe before ours, but that explanation has the same problem. The question may just be completely unanswerable, like "how long is a piece of string" or "why is yellow".
We can also ask the more-or-less equivalent question, why are there physical laws? but that doesn't help. The answer to that question might simply be "because there are". That might not be very satisfying, but that wouldn't stop it being true.
In fact, it's a loaded question: using the word "why" instead of "how" implies a purpose or reason.
Indeed there might not be any reason but to create.
