Sublime

Most of us have been taught that life is fragile, its existence always at risk, but this is a parochial error stemming from, ironically enough, an excessively anthropocentric worldview.

The Anthropocene is a proposed term for the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. Nothing is more human than aggrandizing humans, but we are a hugely powerful force on Earth in the twenty-first century.

a remarkable chain of events the triangle of observations, theorizing, and anthropic reasoning on λ—each one revolutionary in its own right—came together in the early 2000s. It is this confluence of ideas that led to anthropic multiverse cosmology,

a remarkable chain of events the triangle of observations, theorizing, and anthropic reasoning on λ—each one revolutionary in its own right—came together in the early 2000s. It is this confluence of ideas that led to anthropic multiverse cosmology,