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“Why is there anything?” This has been called the fundamental question of philosophy. “Why does the universe exist at all?” “Why does our universe seem so arbitrary?”
Theologians say that God created the universe. Physicists say that the universe created itself at the Big Bang. Philosophers say that the universe exists because it must. Who’s right? Some even argue that the question “why is there anything?” is itself meaningless.
What other question causes so much mystery, so much intellectual debate?
In the book Why Is There Anything?, Matthew Rave argues that the question is not meaningless. Instead, physics and philosophy—together with aesthetics, ethics, psychology, mathematics, literature, and computer science —can help unravel this tangled question. Rave looks at the fundamental question from as many angles as possible, and talks about ways the question has traditionally been addressed. An application of quantum mechanics (and the many-worlds interpretation) then brings us closer to an “ultimate” answer.
Maybe there is no ultimate answer to the question “why is there anything?” That doesn’t mean, though, that one can’t have fun thinking about it. In Rave’s unique, playful style—a sort of Socratic dialogue meets My Dinner With Andre—no topic is left out. Rave has made a comprehensive survey of the fundamental question, using as many tools as possible. Challenging yet accessible, broad in scope and eclectic in its approach, this book uses humor and metaphor to create a very personal narrative, one that employs dialogue and wordplay such as in Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach. In a word, the book is fun.
By the end of the book, Rave hopes to convince the reader of two things: one, that the fundamental question is complex, vast, rich, and not easily dismissed; and two, that modern physics—in all its baroque glory—can help illuminate and clarify the fundamental question in ways that are surprising and satisfying.
- Sales Rank: #770591 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-12-02
- Released on: 2013-12-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Reading this book didn't make sense, but it made wonderful sense to read it!
By Learning from Dogs
Those who read this review will have no means of knowing (until now!) that I stared at the empty frame into which my review was to be written for a good ten minutes without knowing how to start and what to say. (You could argue, probably correctly, that the last sentence proved my point: that I could not think of what to say!)
Matthew Rave's book was recommended to me by John Zande, author of the book The Owner of All Infernal Names, that, in turn, came out of a blog discussion between me and John following the broadcast in September 2015 of a BBC Horizon programme on multiple universes. Rave, who believes that multiple universes are a much "simpler" concept than just our single one, employed a very clever format to convey his message as to Why Is There Anything? That format being a discussion between Achilles and Brutus.
Having said that and having, without doubt, been incredibly grateful for reading Rave's book, nonetheless the book defies any clear meaning for this 70-year-old Brit. But maybe that's the message that Rave offers. That there are some aspects of time, energy and matter that cannot be fully understood even by those of Rave's impressive credentials. That there are questions that can only be projected out into the deep silence and will only be answered in another time; or even space-time!
If you have ever looked up into the night sky and wondered about the meaning of it all, then read this book. You won't find that meaning but you will be transported to corners of your mind you never believed existed. No better illustrated than by the following extract from Rave's last chapter: Your tears move millions.
"Somewhere in the multiverse, you are loved. Somewhere you are hated. Somewhere, you are loved by everyone. Somewhere, you are hated by everyone. God exists, and He does not; the same is true for Allah, and Buddha, and Zeus, Odin, Cthulhu, and the Green Lantern. Somewhere, you are Wonder Woman's arch villain. Somewhere else, there are no villains, because perfect goodness has found its expression as a mathematical absolute. You cry, and you do not cry; your tears move millions or are forgotten forever."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Journey of Ideas and a Unique Approach
By shawn hoshall
Before I write this review I want to disclose that the author Dr. Rave is a very good friend. We met at Wake Forest University as undergrads playing many a game of chess, Rolling Thunder and Psychic Guess Who and have stayed in close contact ever since.
My first impression of the book as I started reading was a physicist "Dinner with Andre". There are sections that I liked or intrigued me more than others but I found it quite interesting, a lot of fun, and worth the journey.
Why is there anything?
The WITA question is one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. I have read numerous books on this topic.
The book to me however is much more than an attempt to answer this question. If you are looking for a pure discussion on the, "Why is there anything" topic as presented by for example Lawrence Krause in "A Universe From Nothing" or a review of the many "Why is there anything?" theories which was in Jim Holt's, "Why Does the World Exist" you will find a very different approach in the book and a much broader topic area. My interpretation is the book is partly a structured attempt at how to determine what something means. The interpretation and defining of language/communication/information/beliefs,religious solutions vs. the scientific method, science even goes at it with philosophy and of course theories of quantum physics + much more.
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end" LeGuin.
The journey itself is the most important aspect of the book. The reasoning that goes into the choices and conclusions the characters make that encourage the reader to think about the process on how the decisions were made and if they want to agree or disagree with the protagonist is the key.
The approach of the book is quite different than anything I have read for this type of topic. Having a dialog between 2 characters is unique and the addition of interesting and amusing books, movies, people (not often Britney Spears is referenced in Physics/Philosophy books) etc in indirect ways makes it more interesting.
The author is a brilliant individual and I believe this will be the first of many more books to come on various topics. If you are into topics dealing with physics and philosophy I believe you will find reading this book unique and time well spent.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
a tremendously good read. Rave is in possession of that all-too ...
By John Z
"Think on this: the ultimate question," asks physicist, Matthew Rave. "Why is there anything?" If you have ever sought an answer to this question then this book is, simply put, a tremendously good read.
Rave is in possession of that all-too rare ability to articulate the tangled, convoluted, intuitively not-obvious world of Quantum Mechanics, and with wit and narrative flare communicate the nature of reality as seen from the leading edge of modern physics. The narrative unfolds as a dialogue had between the protagonists, Achilles and Brutus, who’re the embodiment of two opposing worldviews: the supernatural (theistic) world of Woo, and the scientifically derived naturalism of science, and Rave presents both with an honesty and, I'd say, a gentleness that is to be admired. Why is There Anything? is an easily understood, sometimes laugh out loud journey through some of the most astute and vexing arguments for the existence of anything, let alone everything, and through this entertaining and theatrical report rises the Many Worlds Theory which is, Rave argues convincingly, our best model for answering the ultimate question.
Perhaps most importantly, Rave identifies and confronts an omission commonly made by cosmologists today who in answering the question, why the universe "is" as opposed to "isn't," presents the case that ‘something’ can indeed come from ‘nothing;’ pointing to particles randomly popping in and out of reality as evidence thereof. While true, such events do happen, they happen all the time, it is an unsatisfactory (and ultimately lazy) answer as it fails to address the fact that for particles to perform this trick the laws of Quantum Mechanics have to already be in-place; meaning ‘something’ really didn't come ‘nothing.’ Those laws are something, so the question has not really been answered. Rave (who I've learnt devised a retrocausal experiment to control God and prove the incompatibility of Free Will and omniscience at the age of twelve) is, thankfully, not lazy. He identifies the problem, and he answers it in a manner that is as pleasurable to read as it is logically appealing.
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