Why is there something, rather than nothing at all? It is, perhaps, the mystery of last resort. Scientists may theoretically be able to trace every galaxy back to a bump in the Big Bang, to complete the entire quantum roll call of particles and forces. But the question of why there was a Big Bang or any quantum particles at all was presumed to lie safely out of scientific bounds, in the realms of philosophy or religion.

<p><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'>Before the Big Bang</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>Cosmologist Lawrence M Krauss

Before the Big Bang

Cosmologist Lawrence M Krausss new book proclaims that science can explain the origin of our star-spangled cosmos

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