Science Comedian

For all that astronomers and physi­cists, philoso­phers and poets have learned about the uni­verse since women and men first peered out of those tiny holes in our skulls, we are still no closer to answer­ing per­haps the most fun­da­men­tal cos­mo­log­i­cal ques­tion of all:

Why is there some­thing instead of nothing?

But I have my own theory:

It was a tax write-off.

It was more ben­e­fi­cial to have a uni­verse than not to have one. And it was designed to fail – which it has, if local con­di­tions can be taken as any indication.