The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

by Sean Carroll

and I swerved to avoid him. The enormous eighteen-wheeler in the lane to my left wasn’t as far back as I thought. The very last inch of my back bumper caught the very front corner of the truck’s cab. That was enough. I lost all control of my car, which executed a slow and stately counterclockwise turn, ending with my driver’s side flush into the front of the truck, still speeding down the freeway. It was slow and stately