Full Idea
If there were nothing, then wouldn't it be just as good a question to ask why there is nothing rather than something? There are many ways for there to be something, but only one way for there to be nothing.
Gist of Idea
An equally good question would be why there was nothing instead of something
Source
Adrian Bardon (Brief History of the Philosophy of Time [2013], 8 'Confronting')
Book Reference
Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.170
A Reaction
[He credits Nozick with the question] I'm not sure whether there being nothing counts as a 'way' of being. If something exists it seems to need a cause, but no cause seems required for the absence of things. Nice, though.
Related Idea
Idea 22905 Becoming disordered is much easier for a system than becoming ordered [Bardon]