by Robert McLean
My commitment to encourage a positive response to human-induced climate change was reinforced as I listened last night (March 17) to Professor Lawrence Krauss at Melbourne Embiggen Books.
My commitment to encourage a positive response to human-induced climate change was reinforced as I listened last night (March 17) to Professor Lawrence Krauss at Melbourne Embiggen Books.
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| Prof Lawrence Krauss. |
Prof Krauss, a
Canadian-American theoretical physicist who is a professor of physics of the
School of Earth and Space Exploration, and a director of the Origins Project at
Arizona State University.
He is also the
author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek and A
Universe from Nothing, which he talked about at Embiggen Books.
About 70 people
filled the Little Lonsdale Street bookshop to hear about, and learn about, Prof
Krauss’s theory of something evolving from nothing.
His arguments
were convincing and, in his view and certainly many of those listening, provided
a more than adequate response to the theists who argued that the existence life
demanded an ultimate source, namely God.
Prof Krauss saw
that ultimate source in physics and in answer to the question, “And where did
they come from?” he can scientifically prove, they came from nothing.
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| A Universe from Nothing by Prof Lawrence Krauss. |
Answering an audience
question about the strength of the belief in God among Americans and many other
parts of the world, Prof Krauss said the realization that it was all physics
and not God was only inching ahead.
He said the
science on which the world depends is so important “We have to continue to
fight”
Considering that,
it is critical we stand ready to disabuse the climate change skeptics among us and
repeatedly, if necessary, consider an appropriate response to a behaviour that
is irrevocably change earth’s climate.
