Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing

I don’t have an answer to why there is something instead of nothing, however, Irwin Schrodinger pointed out that the question itself is astonishing. In his book My View of the World, he said that our astonishment and wonder are what we feel when we encounter something that differs from what we expect. Since we have nothing to compare the world to, it’s impossible to have any particular expectation of it, and yet we still find ourselves surprised and puzzled by what we find. We can’t say what we should have found in order not to be surprised, or how the world would have to have been constructed in order not to be a riddle.