Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Galaxy Simulations Are at Last Matching Reality—and Producing Surprising Insights Into Cosmic Evolution
science.orgscience.orgAs physicist Paul Davies writes in The Goldilocks Enigma (Allen Lane, 2006): Somehow the universe has engineered, not just its own awareness, but also its own comprehension. Mindless, blundering atoms have conspired to make not just life, but understanding. The evolving cosmos has spawned beings who are able not merely to watch the show, but to
... See moreAlexander Green • Beyond Wealth
But almost everyone appears to agree on one thing. In some way or other, space-time itself seems to fall apart at a black hole, implying that space-time is not the root level of reality but an emergent structure from something deeper. Although Einstein conceived of gravity as the geometry of space-time, his theory also entails the dissolution of
... See moreGeorge Musser • The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
The Universe is an infinite set of objects and energy, subject to the natural laws and to random events at the quantum level. (My view)