Krauss redux
03-29-2012
, 05:45 PM
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fwiw,
New York Times Sunday Book Review:
‘A Universe From Nothing,’ by Lawrence M. Krauss
Review by David Albert (David Albert is a professor of philosophy at Columbia and the author of “Quantum Mechanics and Experience.”)
New York Times Sunday Book Review:
‘A Universe From Nothing,’ by Lawrence M. Krauss
Review by David Albert (David Albert is a professor of philosophy at Columbia and the author of “Quantum Mechanics and Experience.”)
Lawrence M. Krauss, a well-known cosmologist and prolific popular-science writer, apparently means to announce to the world, in this new book, that the laws of quantum mechanics have in them the makings of a thoroughly scientific and adamantly secular explanation of why there is something rather than nothing. Period. Case closed. End of story. I kid you not. Look at the subtitle. Look at how Richard Dawkins sums it up in his afterword: “Even the last remaining trump card of the theologian, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?,’ shrivels up before your eyes as you read these pages. If ‘On the Origin of Species’ was biology’s deadliest blow to supernaturalism, we may come to see ‘A Universe From Nothing’ as the equivalent from cosmology. The title means exactly what it says. And what it says is *devastating.”
Well, let’s see...
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But all there is to say about this, as far as I can see, is that Krauss is dead wrong and his religious and philosophical critics are absolutely right.
04-05-2012
, 07:58 PM
