Figuring Forward in an Uncertain World

Eventually the sun will explode and the earth will vaporize. Everything that has come together…

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You might think of it as ‘cosmic insignificance therapy’: when things all seem too much, what better solace than a reminder that they are, provided you’re willing to zoom out a bit, indistinguishable from nothing at all? The anxieties that clutter the average life – relationship troubles, status rivalries, money worries – shrink instantly down to i