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Universe
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But when we look around us, we see we live in a universe full of interesting stuff, full of stars, planets, trees, squirrels. The question is, ultimately, why does all this interesting stuff exist?
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Steve Grand points out that you and I are, ourselves, more like a wave than a permanent thing.
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What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished world, but a model of the world, regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed so it's useful for dealing with the real world.
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Middle World is the narrow range of reality which we judge to be normal, as opposed to the queerness of the very small, the very large and the very fast.
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Nothing is totally impossible. Miracles are just events that are extremely improbable.
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I suspect that life is quite common in the universe. And when I say quite common, it could still be so rare that no one island of life ever encounters another, which is a sad thought.
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Are there some things in the universe so queer that no philosophy of beings, however godlike, could dream them?
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The Higgs field gives mass to the fundamental particles that we're made from. If it wasn't there, those particles would have no mass, and no atoms could form and there would be no us.
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The universe began as a rapid expansion of space and time thirteen point eight billion years ago, the Big Bang.
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According to early versions of the Big Bang theory, the universe has been expanding ever since with gravity gradually putting the brakes on that expansion.
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