Lawrence Krauss: God not needed for the universe

A worker walks past a giant photograph of the CMS detector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

It’s a question as old as the practice of philosophy: why is there something rather than nothing?

Physicist Lawrence Krauss has spent his career engaging this very issue studying cosmology.

Krauss asserts that what has been discovered about quantum physics in fairly recent history proposes a controversial idea:  God is not needed for the creation of the universe.

He takes on this issue (and a fair deal of criticism from the assertion) in his new book “A Universe From Nothing.”

Krauss tells Steve Fast that work at the CERN supercollider is on the verge of revealing even more about the mysteries of the universe… and that physicists are suprised when experiments actually support their theories.

Listen to the interview…

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