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The Theory of Nothing: Why the Deepest Explanation May Be No Explanation at All

The Theory of Nothing: Why the Deepest Explanation May Be No Explanation at All

George, Babu

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General ScienceHistory & Philosophy of Science

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ISBN13: 9798185808832
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Theory of Nothing takes the oldest question in philosophy, why is there something rather than nothing, and turns it upside down. Instead of demanding a reason for existence, it asks what a state of affairs would look like if it needed no explanation at all, and follows that question through the failures of the theory-of-everything dream, the restlessness of the quantum vacuum, the possibility that physical laws are survivors rather than decrees, the self-destruction of contradictory structures, and the idea that reality is information written in vanishing ink. Written for curious general readers with no background in physics or philosophy, and built from small, ordinary examples, whirlpools, sandcastles, holes in socks, a grandmother's brass vessel, it offers both a rigorous framework for thinking about the foundations of reality and a warm, humane answer to what it means to be a temporary pattern in a universe grounded in absence. Readers will come away with a clear grasp of why total explanation fails, what modern physics actually says about emptiness, and why impermanence may be the condition of meaning rather than its enemy.

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