Quantum Nothingness and Mystery of Mysteries: Lawrence Krauss and Ibn Arabi on the Likelihood of Existence for Absolute and the Multiverses

Abstract

Why is there something rather than nothing? Or why is there anything at all? Thousands of years religions came up with the answer. This fundamental question has been raised by a range of philosophers and physicists. With the advent of Quantum Mechanics, scientists came up with a new answer that explains how the universe could come into existence without any intervention from any transcendental or immanent divine reality. Ibn Arabi’s cosmology dealt with transcendental or immanent divine reality of existence in a unique way which successfully formulated a comprehensive answer to the philosophical doubt of Muslim scholars in the medieval period of Islam. This unique way of dealing with existence lies with Taoist teaching also as Japanese scholar Izutsu shows in his works. This research uses qualitative methodology to understand the existence of the universe and God. The limitation of research is that secondary data has been used to comprehend the problem of existence. This research finds that early Neoplatonist thought and modern thought on the existence of God and the Universe have unique ways to deal with similar topics. Proponents of New atheism negate the existence of God in cosmology through an evolutionary process from nothing (quantum vacuum) whereas Mystics of religions affirm the existence of God in Cosmology through an evolutionary process from the Absolute (Mystery of mysteries).