[T]here is no ether at all. This is now the received wisdom following Einstein’s work ….

The existence of time is a mystery. There is no use for it.

In more conventional quantum mechanical terms, we would say that the Universe is the result of a quantum mechanical tunneling process, where it must be interpreted as having tunnelled from nothing at all.

A major extension of physics will be necessary to delve into the first 10-43 second and follow the history of the universe in those first quantum moments when it was entirely shrouded in mystery.

The question of why the Universe is as it is, is inextricably linked to that of why fundamental physics is the way that it is.

(E)lementary particles come in populations of universally identical particles.

The symbols are 0, ‘zero’, S, ‘successor of’, +, ×, and =.

Most fundamental pictures of the physical world assume that the basic notions – fields, space, and time – are continuous entities rather than discrete bits.

Quantum tunneling processes, which are familiar to physicists and routinely observed, correspond to transitions which do not have a classical path.