APPENDIX Z58: 2006: Cosmologist Leonard Susskind
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APPENDIX Z58:
2006: Cosmologist Leonard
Susskind
***
“For my own tastes, elegance and simplicity can
sometimes be found in principles that don’t at all
lend
lend
themselves to equations. I know of no equations
that
that
are more elegant than the
two principles that underpin
two principles that underpin
Darwin’s theory: random
mutation and competition. This
mutation and competition. This
book is about an organizing principle that is also
powerful
powerful
and simple….
And what about the biggest questions of all: who
or
or
what made the universe and for what reason? Is
there a
there a
purpose to it all? I don’t pretend to know the answers…
…The ultimate existential question, ‘Why is there
Something rather than Nothing?’ has no more or less
of
of
an answer than before anyone had ever heard of String
Theory.”…
*** Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
2006. pp 379-380
