Secular Humanists
Something From Nothing: Physics Defies "Common Sense"
Updated 26 days ago
In this exchange between physicist Lawrence Krauss and biologist Richard Dawkins, we are introduced to a topic evolution never prepared us to understand: How can something develop from nothing? By clinging to classical, inborn notions about nothingness, we impose upon ourselves a distorted idea of reality. Even today, how many of us comprehend how quantum physics has proven that a void cannot exist? But, as Krauss explains, the universe is uninterested in our everyday perceptions of reality and ignores what we consider “common sense.”