Good luck, physicists, with those tricky 'meaning of life' questions
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/24/physicists-questions-scientists-theologians-big-bang-discovery Scientists have replaced us theologians as the people you'd ask your existential queries. And following the big bang discovery, they should expect a grilling 'What caused the cause of all things? Jim Al-Khalili's answer is clever but unsatisfying. It’s like asking what is south of the South Pole , he says.' Photograph: Stephen Cooter/BBC I had to smile. I am standing in a circle with Prof Jim Al-Khalili and others, discussing the new findings about the big bang . To be honest, my head doesn't really get itself around gravitational waves at the best of times, but before breakfast it's all too much. But then comes a moment of insight. Someone asks Al-Khalili – a professor of theoretical physics – what came before the big bang. What caused the cause of all things? His answer is clever but unsatisfying...