A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

by Lawrence Krauss

About 1 percent of that static you saw on the television screen was radiation left over from the Big Bang.

Einstein once asked a question that, he said, was the one thing he really wanted to know about nature. I admit it is the most profound and fundamental question that many of us would like answered. He put it as follows: “What I want to know is whether God [sic] had any choice in the creation of the universe.”