FROM THE EDITOR
Why is there something, rather than nothing? Why does anything exist at all? Every culture has its own creation stories, but until recently, it’s not something physicists had a satisfying answer for. Our best answer to that question, in scientific terms, is that ‘something’ is more stable than ‘nothing’. Our best theories of the world of the infinitesimally small – the realm of quantum physics – have observed that the smallest particles can pop in and out of existence. That same theory predicts that at the smallest possible scale, bubbles of space-time – the fabric upon which everything exists – would blink in and out of nothingness. In the world of quantum theory, if something can happen, it does. So, it’s possible our Universe was born out of a bubble…
