Skeptophilia

Why is there something rather than nothing? It's the Mother of All Existential Questions, and has been batted around for as long as ther...

A major underpinning of our understanding of physics has to do with symmetry  and conservation laws . Both have to do with order, balance, a...

One of the most fundamental unanswered questions in physics is why there is something instead of nothing. I don't mean this in an existe...

It's a big mystery why anything exists. I'm not just being philosophical, here.  According to the current most widely-accepted cosmo...

I try to avoid writing about topics I don't fully understand, because that's just too great an opportunity for my sticking my foot i...

The question "why are we here?" has vexed scientists and philosophers alike. The philosophical answers to this are beyond the pu...