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thenewenlightenmentage: There’s More to Nothing Than We Knew Why is there something, rather than nothing at all? It is, perhaps, the mystery of last resort. Scientists may be at least theoretically able to trace every last galaxy back to a bump in the Big Bang, to complete the entire quantum roll call of particles and forces. But the question of why there was a Big Bang or any quantum particles at all was presumed to lie safely out of scientific bounds, in the realms of philosophy or religion. Read More

thenewenlightenmentage:

There’s More to Nothing Than We Knew

Why is there something, rather than nothing at all?

It is, perhaps, the mystery of last resort. Scientists may be at least theoretically able to trace every last galaxy back to a bump in the Big Bang, to complete the entire quantum roll call of particles and forces. But the question of why there was a Big Bang or any quantum particles at all was presumed to lie safely out of scientific bounds, in the realms of philosophy or religion.

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#astronomy  #astrophysics  #cosmology  #science  #lawrence krauss  #big bang  #quantum physics  #quantum mechanics  #space  #the universe  #atheism  #religion  
∞  February 21, 2012
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