Lawrence Krauss

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"What's on my mind? Why, absolutely fucking nothing at all."

Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, purveyor of popular science, filthy Canadian and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, as well as being Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the same institution. Previously he was director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University. He is fascinated with nothing and dedicates entire tomes to absolutely nothing at all.

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[edit] Ideas

Krauss believes the universe sprang from nothing, in that nothing is in fact something because if there is the potential for something, via the laws of physics, then nothing can become something therefore you can't have nothing and the laws of physics will always ensure something. His lecture on the subject at the Atheist Alliance International conference in 2009[1] has been viewed over a million times on YouTube and lead to a pop science book on the topic of the origins, and fate, of the universe.

Krauss is a defender of scientific skepticism and is fiercely critical of Creationism.

[edit] Books

He is the author of the books, The Physics of Star Trek (yes, Star Trek is real) and A Universe from Nothing.

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. The lecture in question. The original had over a million hits before being DMCA'd. Now re-uploaded
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