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Entropy is also very, very dangerous, and in the end it will get us all. Entropy stands at the finale of all origin stories. It will dissolve away all structures, all shapes, every star and every galaxy and every living cell. Joseph Campbell described entropy’s role poetically in a book on mythology: “The world, as we know it… yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.”12 Modern
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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