Carl Sagan once said “the cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be”. Statements like this deserve to be repeated; the kind of statement that seems reasonably intuitive on a surface level, but when you think on it; ocean deep and slightly scary. The question of God seems to crop up quite a lot when you study theoretical physics; probably because of the fanciful notions and mystery that shrouds the front lines of research. I often think that if God were to exist then (s)he must love a good detective drama; leaving us sitting out on our rock, on a far flung corner of a galaxy, billions of years after the creation of the universe with nothing but small clues to piece together. God aside; this is still the situation we find ourselves in, detectives doing our best with the odds ever stacked…
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