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Yep, even nothing has potential. I especially liked his observarion that something from nothing was inevitable.

I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast yet, but I read the book last week. I recommend the book very highly. Physicists are seemingly on the verge of proving that nothing is unstable and universes will pop into existence randomly. Philosophically, this makes a lot of sense. Now we just need some method to detect a signal of this happening. Even if it cannot be proven in our lifetimes it is a very intriguing possibility. Much better than goddidit.

Nothing ain’t really nothing it seems. What a cool topic, and Krauss is always a fun guest.

The presence of nothing implies something in itself. Only a void presents the absence of everything. But obviously there never was a void, only a geometric singularity of nothing and that is something.

Why does the universe exist?(just under half the program time) Perhaps the largest of big questions.  Stick it to those conservative Christian fundamentalists. (a little over half the program time) An idea as big as a grade school play yard, but life itself to liberals intent on highjacking science, skepticism, and all the power in human society. Demonize and stigmatize the competition.

rg21, if you had a point there it is obscured by your poor writing. You should try using complete sentences with a subject to perform an action, a verb to indicate the action, and a direct object to receive the action. Now, try again and explain to us exactly what point you wanted to make.

“Why does the universe exist” may be the largest and most fascinating of big question although ironically it consumed just under half the program time. In contrast, tormenting and mocking conservative fundamentalist Christians and the glee garnered from so doing, an exercise that consumed a bit more than half the program time, is no more consequential or intellectually significant than the taunts of mean and insecure third graders in a school yard. However, for liberals intent on highjacking and prostituting the skeptical movement and science as they do everything else they can get their hands on, it means as much as life itself.
  Now can I ask in reciprocity from leftists to use proper, respectful, and polite language without slang or vulgarisms wherever they may be from now on?

“Why does the universe exist” may be the largest and most fascinating of big question although ironically it consumed just under half the program time. In contrast, tormenting and mocking conservative fundamentalist Christians and the glee garnered from so doing, an exercise that consumed a bit more than half the program time, is no more consequential or intellectually significant than the taunts of mean and insecure third graders in a school yard. However, for liberals intent on highjacking and prostituting the skeptical movement and science as they do everything else they can get their hands on, it means as much as life itself.
  Now can I ask in reciprocity from leftists to use proper, respectful, and polite language without slang or vulgarisms wherever they may be from now on?

Do you know “why” the universe exists?

IMO it is an unanswerable question.  We have a pretty good idea “how” the universe exists.  Does there need to be a “why”?