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In such a scenario all antimatter would subsequently have annihilated itself with matter in the dense primeval gas, inundating the universe with high-energy photons. But there would be a small relic of matter left, no more than one part in a billion, which, almost as an afterthought, would make up the roughly 1050 tons of matter of which you and I
... See moreThomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
Essas histórias têm nos ajudado a evitar sentimentos de insignificância.
Neil deGrasse Tyson • Origens: Catorze bilhões de anos de evolução cósmica (Portuguese Edition)
The question ‘How can we hope to detect and eliminate error?’ is echoed by Feynman’s remark that ‘science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves’.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
"As Steven Weinberg famously summarized modern cosmology, “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”" (Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche)
What sentence holds the most information in the fewest words? “I believe,” said Feynman, “it is the atomic hypothesis . . . that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.”
Lewis Dartnell • The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
However, they found that that stipulation barely made a difference; the theory complemented with the anthropic principle ended up predicting a universe with just one galaxy—ours—and nothing in any way resembling a universe teeming with galaxies like the one we observe.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
