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I Love It When Real Science Finds A Home In A Fictional Setting, Where You Take Some Real Core Idea Of Science And Weave It Through A Fictional Narrative In Order To Bring It To Life, The Way Stories Can. That's My Favorite Thing.

Nature's Patterns Sometimes Reflect Two Intertwined Features: Fundamental Physical Laws And Environmental Influences. It's Nature's Version Of Nature Versus Nurture.

There May Be Many Big Bangs That Happened At Various And Far-flung Locations, Each Creating Its Own Swelling, Spatial Expanse, Each Creating A Universe - Our Universe Being The Result Of Only One Of Those Big Bangs.

When We Benefit From Ct Scanners, M.r.i. Devices, Pacemakers And Arterial Stents, We Can Immediately Appreciate How Science Affects The Quality Of Our Lives.

That Is, You Can Have Nothingness, Absolute Nothingness For Maybe A Tiny Fraction Of A Second, If A Second Can Be Defined In That Arena, But Then It Falls Apart Into A Something And An Anti-something. And That Something Is Then What We Call The Universe. But Can We Really Understand That Or Put Rigorous Mathematics Or Testable Experiments Against That? Not Yet. So One Of The Big Holy Grail Of Physics Is To Understand Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.