Why is there something rather than nothing? If you’re a philosopher, this is a familiar question and one that can be considered from the comfortable confines of an armchair. However, according to a recent column in the New York Times, the answer, “may have been partially revealed in a recent experiment in the Tevatron — a particle accelerator — at Fermilab, in Batavia, Ill.”
The question addressed by the experiment was not about existence itself, of course, but rather about what we might call ‘conditional existence.’ Continue reading “Can Science Explain Existence?”
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