Everything out of nothing sure is a very weak argument and base to build science on. I would like to see the solution, 0 = 1 ? It truley is incomprehensible on every level, thought, experience and mathematically. It can never be, since being is something :) Every concept we know captures an idea, not the lack of one.
Very interesting topic and thanks for a great post!
Thank you for leaving this comment @clausewitz :-) I agree; nothing comes from nothing. But Krauss does make a compelling point; we can now observe that the total energy in our current universe adds up to zero. It's just that there's a lot of positive and a lot of negative energy, the solution according to him is 1 + (-1) = 0, and that's right. What Krauss does, however is "fudge", like Einstein did; his explanation of "nothing" is heavily criticized, because he does assume the existence of some mechanism to "separate" these positive and negative components from each other. So ultimately his "nothing" isn't really nothing. He takes an hour to explain this, so I won't even try to go into more detail here ;-)
I'm just so glad you think this is worth pondering on; it's like we live in times when people just don't take the time to wonder about the miracle that is life, just take it for granted and do almost everything on auto-pilot. This really is why I'm so glad with you, and other readers of course :-) So, thanks once again, my fiend. I hope to see you here again!
Wounder which quantum phenomena that fluctuates in nothing, I think he has many problems with this theory but I must watch the presentation in full, only familiar with some details.
But there are more then + and - charges.. WIMPS, Neutrinos, dark matter etc and even if it all balanced out, there are natural laws prior to having + and - since those, requires precise natural laws. So he admits to a source of natural laws, something where this universe can come into existence, something timeless, since time is not born yet and is not needed on the quantum scale. It sounds very similar to something else, eternal source of existence, governing it with unchangeable laws :)
But I again, I gotta watch the rest of it :)
Hehe He did forget the preceding quantum dynamics, how can he say there is dynamics in the same sentence as he calls it nothing, without coming to insight that it fails ... I mean really, if you have nothing in something, something is there :))
It is very easy to see that he want´s to belive this so bad, which might drive him to put this forth as possible or plausible rather.
I also find it both important and interesting to ponder upon existence, which lead me to altruism and creation of free will as the purpose of life :)
Thanks!