"The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story."

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Source: On the Origin of Everything. www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.

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David Albert

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David Albert is a prominent philosopher of science known for his work on the nature of truth and time, particularly in relation to quantum mechanics.

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