{"id":168558,"date":"2023-07-29T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/episode-9-solo-why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing"},"modified":"2023-07-29T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T13:29:35","slug":"episode-9-solo-why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/episode-9-solo-why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing","title":{"rendered":"Episode 9: Solo \u2014 Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLfvvMjuk6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New Patreon page! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/seanmcarroll\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/seanmcarroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blog post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/podcast\/2018\/08\/13\/episode-9-solo-why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing\/\">https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/podcast\/2018\/08\/13\/epis\u2026n-nothing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fun to be in the exciting, chaotic, youthful days of the podcast, when anything goes and experimentation is the order of the day. So today\u2019s show is something different: a solo effort, featuring just me talking without any guests to cramp my style. This won\u2019t be the usual format, but I suspect it will happen from time to time. Feel free to chime in below on how often you think alternative formats should be part of the mix. The topic today is \u201cWhy Is There Something Rather than Nothing?\u201d, or equivalently \u201cWhy Does the Universe Exist at All?\u201d Heady stuff, but we\u2019re not going to back away from the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>What I have to say will roughly follow my recent paper on the subject, although in a more chatty and accessible style. It concerns ideas at the intersection of physics, philosophy, and theology, so tune in if you\u2019re into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Big news! After a number of people have asked, I have finally opened a Patreon account for people who would like to support Mindscape in some way. You can sign up to kick in a dollar or more per podcast episode, and in return you get 1) access to occasional Ask Me Anything episodes done exclusively for patrons, and 2) my undying gratitude. If the Patreon route is successful enough, I\u2019ll forego having ads on the podcast \u2014 we\u2019ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Patreon page! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/seanmcarroll. Blog post: https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/podcast\/2018\/08\/13\/epis\u2026n-nothing\/ It\u2019s fun to be in the exciting, chaotic, youthful days of the podcast, when anything goes and experimentation is the order of the day. So today\u2019s show is something different: a solo effort, featuring just me talking without any guests to cramp my style. This won\u2019t be the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-access","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}