Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, July 28, 2011, 23:09 (4867 days ago) @ David Turell

Another mental foraging into the philosophic jungle of why is there anything. A good review:
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> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128221.100-existence-why-is-there-a-universe.ht... shocked no one else here has responded to this one! -The article discusses something here that Seth Lloyd discussed in "Programming the Universe."-"It tells us that nothingness is a precarious state of affairs. "You can form a state that has no quarks and antiquarks in it, and it's totally unstable," says Wilczek. "It spontaneously starts producing quark-antiquark pairs." The perfect symmetry of nothingness is broken. That leads to an unexpected conclusion, says Victor Stenger, a physicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder: despite entropy, "something is the more natural state than nothing"."-(Emphasis added was all mine.)
Though I know you don't like Stenger, two facts about the universe are clear: There is about 1:1000000000 more particles of matter in the universe than antiparticles; and that the universe seems "fine-tuned" from order. The difficult part here is the question, "What divining rod can be used to point to a creator here?"

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"