The Question That Keeps Me Awake At Night

The most fundamental question we can ever ask: Why is something rather than nothing? Not nothing as in no particles or no energy, but nothing as in no space, no time, no laws of physics at all. This is a question that has haunted me for years and today this deepest of questions. Written and...

20 min - Space & the Universe - Cool Worlds

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