So, before the universe there was nothing. But how could there really be nothing? And that's how the universe came to be: because there really can't be nothing. Just think about it, the universe is never ending: it's infinite it expands forever. But let's go back to the nothing. Think about it you wouldn't be reading this right now, you would't have ever existed and when most people think of nothing they think of a white page but there would be no white because there was nothing, so then the universe was made to fit the place where there was nothing. So the explanation of the universe and how it came to be is it just did