Why Does the World Exist?

i am so excited to read this book! this is a tough subject to discuss since a lot of it is hypothetical (in fact, most of, if not all, the information we consider fact is hypothetical but some is more defensible than others, i guess), but this certainly doesn't stop me from considering it! why IS there anything versus there being a vacuum?

Why Does the World Exist? by, Jim Holt

i LOVE the idea that nothingness annihilated itself into something! "Das Nichts nichtet"! that is super cool, as is the thought that zero morphed into +1 and -1 (matter and antimatter). i can't wait to read the theories of the people he interviewed. universes "as plentiful as blackberries"! imagine!

oh, it's so exciting.

i just ordered it and am going to try to read pre-baby. there's nothing i'd rather contemplate as i help to bring a little being into existence!