In a message dated 1/21/2008 7:13:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, mpollak at panix.com writes:
On Thu Jan 17, Shane Mage wrote:
> Meaningless "questions" like "Why is there something instead of
> nothing?" cannot yield a meaningful answer to scientific, or any other,
> technique.
There are many scientists who would disagree with you about that. They're called "nothing theorists" and they think about exactly this question.
I'm currently reading a book written for the layperson (but still rather difficult to understand) on this very subject. It's pretty mindblowing. The basic answer to the question is that nothing is too unstable to exist for long, so that particles would inevitably be created.
_The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything_ by K. C. Cole
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