When I first read Krauss’s book, I discovered that the lion’s share of his discussion attempted to describe how material particles in the universe emerged from preexisting energy-rich fields in a preexisting space. This space and energy presumably arose from the singularity at the big bang. Near the end of this discussion, Krauss, clearly sensitive to the objection that neither space nor energy qualified as genuine “nothing,” acknowledged that he had not yet established his main claim. Then in a short chapter near the end of the book, he attempted to prove the thesis of his book—that the laws
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