POTENTIALITY IS THE KEY. Our immediate task is to start from a lot of vacuum and a few rules, and convince you that they have enormous potentiality. Given enough time, they can lead to people, turtles, weather, the Internet – hold it. Where did all that vacuum come from? Either the universe has been around forever, or once there wasn’t a universe and then there was. The second statement fits neatly with the human predilection for creation myths. It also appeals to today’s scientists – possibly for the same reason. Lies-to-children run deep.
