Why there is something, rather than nothing.

[Wiccan_Child]

Sorry, but the article doesn't give the particulars you seek.

A pity. Does it cite its sources? Being a scientific magazine, I'd imagine so.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Basically, it really is truly random, truly spontaneous.

Truly random, truly spontaneous does not mean uncaused in my book. It is still the result of something acting according to its nature.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Truly random, truly spontaneous does not mean uncaused in my book. It is still the result of something acting according to its nature.

It may be acting according to its nature, but that doesn't mean the phenomenon has a root cause (in the sense that another phenomenon triggered it).

But then this could simply be semantics: I'm at a loss as to how a truly random and spontaneous event could be said to be 'caused'.