What exists has quantity, and all that exists is really real, such as mass-energy, yet there is nothing else to make existence of but non-existence, or nothing, which is so perfectly unstable that it cannot be or stay as a state, even for a zillionth of an instant. We see this as the quantum uncertainty, ‘vacuum’ fluctuations, and quantum tunneling, which I believe are all names for about the same state, the wavering in and out of existence of stuff, this being the causeless bottommost state.
That all existence must perfectly sum to non-existence could be the reason for the conservation laws. We note, too, that quantum pair production always produces particles that are opposites: matter/antimatter, and positive/negative polarity of charge. We also note that there are only two stable matter particles (and their antimatter versions): the electron and the proton (neutrons decay) and so we need to ask Why Only Two. The one energy particle, the photon, has neutral charge. We have to wonder, too, if the universe can only be the way it is.
A thing cannot cannot endlessly regress as being based on ever more and smaller things within, or effects would take forever, plus, the elementary stuff could not have been here forever since then there would have been no definition of its certain properties such as form charge, mass, size, location, etc., even the defined total amount of the stuff, so, then, a thing can only come from no-thing, and indeed, nothing satisfies the criteria of a prime mover, being everywhere (infinite) and there forever and always (eternal).
As nothing is the simplest state, it is thus the most unstable one, which is why it cannot be or stay as such. From there on up, it is as physics has it, the simpler stuff readily going through phase changes / recombining, etc,. on up to the very complex, where our being is.
My guess is that the polarity of charge must have something to do with the 4th dimension occupied by time, for there is only this one dimension left in which to nullify all of existence in the overview, and so opposite charge would be the nullifier.
It seems that there can be no really special certain time or place, thus infinity and eternity naturally fall out of this, stuff forming everywhere and at every time. ‘Nothing’ seems to be a natural, too.
