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The Tantalizing Discomfort Of Perplexity Is What Inspires Otherwise Ordinary Men And Women To Extraordinary Feats Of Ingenuity And Creativity; Nothing Quite Focuses The Mind Like Dissonant Details Awaiting Harmonious Resolution.

Free Will Is The Sensation Of Making A Choice. The Sensation Is Real, But The Choice Seems Illusory. Laws Of Physics Determine The Future.

Science Is A Way Of Life. Science Is A Perspective. Science Is The Process That Takes Us From Confusion To Understanding In A Manner That's Precise, Predictive And Reliable - A Transformation, For Those Lucky Enough To Experience It, That Is Empowering And Emotional.

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.

So Many Galaxies, So Many Planets Out There In The Universe Circling So Many Stars... It Just Feels Like There's A Very Good Chance That There Is Another Earth-like Planet Out There That Is Able To Support Some Kind Of Life Similar To What We're Familiar With.