Paul Davies - Why There is ‘Something’ Rather than ‘Nothing’?

We know that there is not Nothing. There is Something. It is not the case that there is no world, nothing at all, a blank. It is the case that there is a world. Nothing did not obtain. But why? Why hasn’t Nothing obtained? Is this ‘ultimate question’ a legitimate question? What can science contribute? What can philosophy?
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Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist.
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