And after all of this, it may be that physics will become an “environmental science.” The fundamental constants of nature, so long assumed to take on special importance, may just be environmental accidents. If we scientists tend to take ourselves and our science too seriously, maybe we also have taken our universe too seriously. Maybe literally, as well as metaphorically, we are making much ado about nothing. At least we may be making too much of the nothing that dominates our universe! Maybe our universe is rather like a tear buried in
