I’m currently reading Lawrence Krauss’ book “A Universe from Nothing”, and in between the excellent descriptions of our ideas about the big bang and the evolution of the universe he’s constantly sneering and lashing out against religion for absolutely no reason. There’s no relevance for these outbursts at all, but there are 16 pages of preface raging against the idea that some people believe that the word “nothing” means “absolute nothingness” instead of “space” (which is truly an active thing) plus a whole Orwellian doublespeak chapter about how nothing is actually something.