Lawrence Krauss, who teaches physics at Arizona State University, also fancies himself a popularizer of science in the manner of Asimov or Sagan. In that spirit, he wrote A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING (2012). He argued therein that something could in fact come from nothing, and physics could explain why. In effect, he proposed to answer the age-old philosophical question "why is there something rather than nothing" in a thoroughly non-theistic way. The book made Krauss a big deal within what is nowadays broadly called the 'skeptic community.' Heck, no less a figure therein than Richard Dawkins wrote the afterword to Krauss' 2012 book. All well and good, except that his something-from-nothing effort doesn't hold up. Many bright people, without any taint of mysticism about them, have explained why, and science journalist John Horgan collected the key points in a column for Scientific American : https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-lawrenc...
