Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Scientists at Fermilab have found suggestive evidence that might help answer an age old mystery. The scientists working at the National Accelerator Laboratory,
…found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter.
The question why there is something rather than nothing sounds philosophical. But the way science has been going: more abstract, more conceptual rather than intuitive, more mathematically derived rather than observational, makes the question no longer solely a resident in the dominion of philosophy.
I doubt that the answer scientists provide to the great questions will be any more authoritative than that offered by philosophy — or even satisfying. But science is still hanging onto some credibility in a world that challenges common sense. So the discovery might be a revelation of sorts, explaining the mechanics of creation itself. And with knowledge comes hope.
