9 | Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Why Does the Universe Exist?
Advances in modern physics have shed light on what it means to ask the question. They have given us new ways of thinking about what would qualify as an answer, but they have not told us what the answer is. In particular, there is a little motto that goes around saying, the reason why there's something rather than nothing is because nothing is unstable. So i'm here to tell you, that is not answer this question that we're interested in. Why dos e universe exist? You'll get plenty of hits. And i think that there's been a misimpression that a lot of people have gotten.
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