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Throughout the history of science, one of the most important questions has been: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” This question is a difficult one to answer without sounding like a complete fool. The only reason we have for being is because of the nothing that preceded us. So, if we have to ask why there is something rather than nothing, then we have to also ask why there is this much of a gap between where there is now and where that was. It looks as though this gap between being and non-being was precisely zeroed out by science.
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