Reality must meet all conditions. Not some conditions. Not the conditions we find comfortable. All of them. And "nothing exists" is one of the conditions. So the totality contains both: matter and nothing, being and non-being, 1 and 0 — existing alongside each other, at all times, in every way.
This is the move most people can't make, and it's the reason the question feels impossible. We assume it's either 0 or 1. Either something exists or nothing does. But that's a false fork. It can be — and is — that 0 and 1 are true at the same time.
-And here's the mechanism that makes it coherent rather than contradictory: nothingness is not the absence of everything. Nothingness is the sum of everything. If every possible configuration exists with equal weight, then nothing is selected — and a totality in which nothing is selected is, viewed from outside, indistinguishable from nothing at all. A library containing every possible book contains no information. Perfect superposition sums to null.
So existence and nonexistence aren't competing answers to the two questions. They're the same fact described from two vantages. From outside the totality: zero. From inside any part of it: everything. The two questions resolve into one object, seen twice.
It follows that reality is infinite. But — and this matters — within the infiniteness, linear time also exists. Infinity is not the negation of sequence. It's the container of every sequence.
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