The Never Ending Pool

saut de basque wrote:

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Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss discusses his book "A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing."

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415707/june-21-2012/lawrence-krauss

Lawrence Krauss kinda drives me nuts. He's obviously a genius but...ugh, he a really glaring example of something I can't stand...he tries way too hard to derive common-language conclusions from what is essentially raw math. To say "the universe came from nothing"...is that the preferred technical parlance? What exactly does that mean in regard to quantum mechanics, a field that is understood only as pure math? Colbert nails this point at the end of the interview with the suggestion that they might be using the words "God" and "nothing" to describe the same thing.

I have to laugh at some of the comments to that clip. I hope these people understand that all of Colbert's interviews go like that.