Published February 22, 2018
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Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing?
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Carroll, Sean M.
Abstract
It seems natural to ask why the universe exists at all. Modern physics suggests that the universe can exist all by itself as a self-contained system, without anything external to create or sustain it. But there might not be an absolute answer to why it exists. I argue that any attempt to account for the existence of something rather than nothing must ultimately bottom out in a set of brute facts; the universe simply is, without ultimate cause or explanation.
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This research is funded in part by the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech and by DOE grant de-sc0011632.Attached Files
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- 84903
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20180221-105036200
- DE-SC0011632
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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2018-02-22Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2023-06-02Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
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- CALT-TH
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 2018-004