We have already seen that the existing view is firmly rooted in a space-and-time modality: You and I are bodies on a planet that dwells in a particular cosmic neighborhood. Our world had a birth 4.65 billion years ago, some 9.15 billion years after the Big Bang, and so on. This is how we visualize things, or, hopefully, how we used to, as we’ve already seen that neither space nor time has any kind of fundamental reality beyond being tools of animal perception. Once we’ve dispensed with space and time, one other major player has a central role in the current standard model: randomness, or
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