Sublime

In 1894, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Michelson proclaimed: “The

emeritus of physics at Princeton University: “It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe are hypothetical.”42

“Well, Mandelbrot found a remarkable thing with his geometric tools. He found that things looked almost identical at different scales.”

this book is not primarily a defence of these theories: it is an investigation of what the fabric of reality would be like if they were true.

in place, by stories. ‘The universe is made of stories,/not of atoms.’ So wrote the poet Muriel Rukeyser

“Observing an atom being in a particular place created its being there? Yes.”