{"id":187413,"date":"2024-04-15T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/martin-rees-why-is-there-anything-at-all"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:23:31","slug":"martin-rees-why-is-there-anything-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/martin-rees-why-is-there-anything-at-all","title":{"rendered":"Martin Rees \u2014 Why Is There Anything At All?"},"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\/6R50V19-8bA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on X for news, fascinating articles, and discussions with other followers: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/imHY9\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/imHY9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is there a world, a cosmos, something, anything instead of absolutely nothing at all? If nothing existed, there would be, well, \u2018nothing\u2019 to explain. To have anything existing demands some kind of explanation. Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why anything? Why not nothing? What can we learn from the absence of nothing?<\/p>\n<p>Free access to Closer to Truth\u2019s library of 5,000 videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012. He was President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Watch more videos on the mystery of existence: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/dvxAN\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/dvxAN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow us on X for news, fascinating articles, and discussions with other followers: https:\/\/shorturl.at\/imHY9 Why is there a world, a cosmos, something, anything instead of absolutely nothing at all? If nothing existed, there would be, well, \u2018nothing\u2019 to explain. To have anything existing demands some kind of explanation. Of all the big questions, this is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187413","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=187413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}