Astronomy Cast Ep. 397: Why is There Something and Not Nothing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuP0VPLXeVc

Streamed live on Dec 14, 2015

Pamela is at a conference, so we’re going to record later today than usual!

One of the biggest, most basic questions you can ask is: “why is there something and not nothing?” The reality is that we don’t know the answer, we might never know the answer. Let’s probe to the edge of what we can explain, and what ideas cosmologists have proposed to explain how we all got here.

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