“A Universe From Nothing” by Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins

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Doctor Lawrence Krauss explains in this talk how we have discovered and come to our current understanding of what the universe is and where it came from. He points out the mistakes science has made in its effort to explain our existence and the existence of matter. Through the pictures that the Hubble Space telescope has provided to science a light has been shown on the grandness and massive space in the universe. The idea we exist in a small and infinite place is no longer acceptable. But Dr. Krauss looks to explain, like the rest of science, where it all began.

In his lecture Dr. Krauss explains how science reaches its conclusion about the age of the universe, and how they have come to the understanding that it is expanding. Light guides them in their understanding as it points to the length of time passed since a star dies or is born. Because of the understanding of the speed of light they can understand this in a clearer manner. Of course, quantum physics are actually now responsible for the explanation of how the universe came out of nothing. Dr. Krauss discusses how photons explain how the big bang is really how it all began. He also discusses how the geometry of the universe can possibly explain how it was created, and prove that our universe came from nothing. A flat universe would represent that it came from nothing, and that is exactly what geometry has proved.

Dr. Krauss is staunchly atheistic and holds that science proves that there is no god, for if there were there would be more evidence of it. He states that our tiny insignificant existence in the universe makes the argument of religion null and void. He believes it simply does not make any sense to believe there is a higher power. However, the argument can go both ways. Dr. Krauss admits they have no understanding of why dark matter makes up so much of the universe or why it is where it is. But many argue that what science cannot explain religion can. Of course, depending on your perspective this can either be evidence of God or evidence that our lives our purposeless.

The fact that without the perfect amount of gravity, light, and chemistry there would be no us gives many people hope for what the future hold, and that is one thing science cannot change.