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“Weinberg said: "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." I must disagree with my old teacher. To me the universe seems quite the opposite of pointless. It seems that the more we learn, the more we see how it all fits together. As we study the universe as a whole, we realize that microcosm and macrocosm are, increasingly, the same subject. By unifying them, we are learning that nature is as it is not because it is the chance consequence of a random series of meaningless events; quite the opposite. More and more, the universe appears to be as it is because it must be that way.”

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George Smoot
George Smoot

George Smoot is an American cosmologist renowned for his work on cosmic microwave background radiation. In 1992, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with John Mather, for their discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided key evidence for understanding the early structure of the universe. more

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