How to Make a Universe is a four-step primer on making your own universe for the would-be world-maker on the go. "Allow me to ask a few basic questions. Where did the universe come from? How did it get here? What are its ingredients and how did those ingredients get put together in the first place? In other words, what is the universe"s recipe and how did the set of instructions for that recipe initially come to be? Okay, so those are the questions. Now what? Is it time to shrug our collective shoulders, place this book to one side, and safely forget about the whole deal once again? Are we to assume that such questions are only so much metaphysical nonsense? Are they to be regarded as unanswerable a priori? After all, how could we even know that we had a correct answer if we were staring right at it, right? Well, I think the greatest of all why questions is answerable. In fact, I think there is a recipe for existence and I think it can be re-engineered and made understandable."--Excerpt from How to Make a Universe.