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A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING: WHY THERE IS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Lawrence M Krauss,Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science Richard Dawkins | 240 pages | 03 May 2013 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9781451624465 | English | United States A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing PDF Book In other words: Not only we but everything in our whole universe is a product of some pollution. Although Krauss suggests that these rules or potentialities could also have spontaneously arisen. One of the few prominent scientists today to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss reveals that modern science is addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing, with surprising and fascinating results. This brings up an obvious objection: pain and suffering seem contrary to play. Can one not still wonder legitimately why there is quantum vacuum energy and inflation and not nothing at all? Thus over trillions of years the universe will dissipate into an amorphous sea of particles, a fate that clearly disturbs the author. Krauss confessed that in the subtitle of the book "Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing", he didn't really mean what modern-day philosophers and theologians would understand by the term "nothing", because our knowledge and understanding of the universe and of nothing is advancing and what was considered nothing by previous philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas is not seen so by today's standards. Something came into ontological existence when apperception was born into the Cosmos. Krauss tells the scientific "story" of our Universe and answers the question, Why How there Is Something from Nothing using the latest in quantum mechanics and modern physics. Philosopher Brian Leftow has argued that the question cannot have a causal explanation as any cause must itself have a cause or a contingent explanation as the factors giving the contingency must pre-exist , and that if there is an answer it must be something that exists necessarily i. I'd be less than honest if I didn't admit that some of this went over my head, but then again, I haven't devoted my life to the study of physics and the cosmos. Quantum mechanics dictates that there is no such thing. There is some barely disguised disdain for string theory — which I share as well since it comes as force fitted, excessively complex and detached from reality to me. Rather than remaining perfectly smooth and continuous, space and time destabilize, churning and frothing into a foam of space-time bubbles. Jul 28, Shaun rated it really liked it Shelves: non- fiction , read-in Retrieved December 7, Bizarrely, it may not have had to get any. If the universe had no beginning, therefore there always was something — its non-existence is therefore impossible. Why there is something rather than nothing seems less fundamental to me, than asking why are we aware of the universe at all. Perhaps a better understanding of dark energy would lead to a different outlook. Community Reviews. I actually listened to the audio version of this book, narrated by Krauss. On the other hand, if you're open and secure in what you believe, don't mind a healthy dose of mind bending ideas, and are interested in learning more about the freaking awesomeness of the universe, then this somewhat simplified introduction is probably worth your time. It could be as flat as a table top. But for that we need another trick: cosmic inflation. From a scientific point of view, this book is along the same lines as The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking. However, what's reassuring is that Krauss is a leading physicist and that the same argument was used by other scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Yet a cause may not always be necessary, even for the formation of the universe, which is beyond our knowledge; if there indeed was a starting point of the universe at all. He received undergraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Physics at Carleton University. At this point, making a universe looks almost easy. Metaphysics Epistemology Logic Ethics Aesthetics. It will also form a cross-cutting educational theme at ASU. Unfortunately, Krauss tries to pass this off as equivalent to the metaphysical question as to why their is something rather than nothing to be honest, it is difficult to tell if Krauss is being disengenuous here or simply sloppy in his thinking. All the way back to Aristotle and beyond, but I'm going to stop there, it gets different when you step back to Plato, and the Pre-Socratics, well just forget it , it's this basic idea that works to create his own speculation about creation he sidestepped the question in a way by saying the universe must be eternal since there could be no prime-mover , and following his logic it's one of those tools that most philosophy people carry around in their mental toolbox to help them call bullshit on arguments with weak premises. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Although existence may be grammatically predicated of nothing, it has no philosophical meaning. So what better thing could we do with our sliver of something than see what consciousness can do? Eschatological verification Language game Logical positivism Apophatic theology Verificationism. Krauss likes to take pot-shots at philosophers, too. The same goes for light: neither color nor sound exist without being perceived. Hidden categories: Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia. Philosophy portal Physics portal Religion portal. First, he challenges the question itself. So who needs God? Thus the reality of something coming out of nothing during the beginning of the universe or something going out of existence from something is real. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing Writer When theists say that the universe exists because of God, they are saying that the universe exists, because of some agent they know: that make those theists superior to us, simple miscreants, who do not happen to be acquainted with what created all. Many other thinkers, such as Bede Rundle, [27] have questioned whether nothing is an ontological possibility. I just feel it is Wrong, that is all, to explain things by saying that we wouldn't be here to talk about it if it were not so and that is the answer. We inhabit a universe we believe to be around fourteen billion years old. Faster than the speed of light? It was a book that I was sad to finish Inflation also gave cosmologists the measuring tool they needed to determine the underlying geometry of the universe. One of the few prominent scientists today to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss reveals that modern science is addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing, with surprising and fascinating results. View all 49 comments. Krauss not only presents a sound and compelling case for the Big Bang Theory, but he also explains how something really can come from nothing which is really something, btw , a concept that makes my head hurt Share on WhatsApp. View all 17 comments. How can we, as reasoning and self-aware beings, not question how our universe came to be and why it exists at all? Don't try and argue against it as you will look the fool. That it attempts to also situate itself in the growing canon of popular books on atheism feels like a tacked- on marketing ploy. Would our universe bust, or would it ignore all predictions? I had never understood before reading his explanation, how the spatial scales of variability of the cosmic microwave background radiation proves that our universe is flat. He has been fascinated with the reasonableness of the Faith since his junior year in high school in the midth century for which the religion text was entitled, "Faith and Reason". He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of a Prof. We would not be intellectually satisfied with saying that the pocket watch is just there. Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence , tr. He further adds that his purpose from writing the book is to share the marvellous advancements in science made recently and to spark debate about their philosophical and existential consequences which he certainly did - and I recommend reading them after the book. A love affair with science and for good reason. Download as PDF Printable version. But this book isn't really an atheist agenda, as it only answers the question of how a universe could come into existence from nothing, no energy, no trigger, no cause. This allowed us to understand that the vast majority of the weight in the universe comes not from the matter we know, but from another type of matter that is mostly scattered between galaxies which cannot be seen and which we know nothing about its nature. Want to Read saving…. Feb 10, Mohamed al-Jamri rated it really liked it Shelves: popular-science-recommendations. Though it was clear to me that the author was trying to explain the contradictory estimates of the geometry of the observable universe by measuring its curvature directly versus assessment of its mass density, the presentation and the pertinent illustrations for the closed, open and the so-called 'flat' universe left me baffled and made me re-read the relevant explanation in The Perception of Space The uses for gravitational lensing. All it represents is an unwillingness to recognize the simple fact that nature may be cleverer than philosophers or theologians.