Carroll, Sean M. (2018) Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? . (Submitted) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180221-105036200
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Abstract
It seems natural to ask why the universe exists at all. Modern physics suggests that the universe can exist all by itself as a self-contained system, without anything external to create or sustain it. But there might not be an absolute answer to why it exists. I argue that any attempt to account for the existence of something rather than nothing must ultimately bottom out in a set of brute facts; the universe simply is, without ultimate cause or explanation.
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Additional Information: | This research is funded in part by the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech and by DOE grant de-sc0011632. | ||||||
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Deposited By: | Joy Painter | ||||||
Deposited On: | 22 Feb 2018 03:29 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2019 19:24 |
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