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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ ...more

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My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college...more

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When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological ma...more

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String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours i...more

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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

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... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

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Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

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We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, i...more

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...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

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If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the u...more

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…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of ph...more

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Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.