HA! Busted. Loved this; thank you, Judy!
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
> Quote from a book review in Boston.com:
>
> "Since time immemorial, curious people have asked where the universe came
> from. Nowadays we have a secular answer: the Big Bang. And yet that answer,
> incredible as it may be, is only partially satisfying. After all, we can
> still ask where the Big Bang came from; and we can still wonder, sensibly
> enough, how something (the universe) could come from nothing (whatever came
> before it).
>
> "In his new book, On Being, Peter Atkins, a British chemist and science
> writer, offers an intriguing answer to those questions. To understand how
> something can come out of nothing, he writes, you have to appreciate the fact
> that 'there probably isn't anything here anyway.'...
>
> "...The Big Bang doesn't mark, necessarily, the creation of something out of
> nothing....Instead, it marks the emergence of texture, differentiation, and
> particularity out of even, unchanging featurelessness. It's not something out
> of nothing, but interestingness out of boredom."
>
>
> Read more:
>
> http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/06/the_big_nothing.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/43gjwv8
>
