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The more we know, however, the more we realize that we have glimpsed only a fraction of the truth.

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 sp

He’d heard Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, hold forth on seemingly every subject under the sun. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, “You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.”

If knowledge is to continue its open-ended growth, and if we are nevertheless heading towards a state in which one person could understand everything that is understood, then the depth of our theories must continue to grow fast enough to make this possible. That can happen only if the fabric of reality is itself highly unified, so that more and mor

it only tells us something about the

First one conceives of all possible expansion histories of the universe,

«La humanidad es como un ser cuyos brazos se alargan hasta tocar las estrellas, y cuyos pies están atascados en el barro. Por una parte, este siglo verá una nueva era de exploración espacial robótica, porque enviaremos satélites cuya misión será localizar en el espacio planetas gemelos de la Tierra, explorar las lunas de Júpiter, e incluso tomar im

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