A universe from nothing 
(Lectures)
14 May 2012
6.30pm
Venue: OGGB4, Level 0, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road
Website: www.science.auckland.ac.nz
Faculty of Science public lecture by Professor Lawrence Krauss, award winning scientist, educator, bestselling author and Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University.
The question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” has been asked for millenia by people who speculate on the need for a creator of our universe. Today, exciting scientific advances provide new insight into this cosmological mystery: Not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing.
Lawrence Krauss will present a mind-bending trip back to the beginning of the beginning and the end of the end, reviewing the remarkable developments in cosmology and particle physics over the past 20 years that have revolutionised our picture of the origin of the universe, and of its future. In the process, it has become clear that not only can our universe naturally arise from nothing, but that it probably did.
All are welcome to this public lecture.
