Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
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Man has a “body given him by nature between these two abysses of the Infinite and Nothing.”
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nothingness is a relative concept.
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I prefer that at least some parts of my being remain in the shadows of mystery.
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Philosophers debate about whether the “laws of nature” are mere descriptions of nature or necessities of nature, the latter being rules that nature must obey without exception.
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galaxies are flying away from one another at a speed increasing exponentially in time. As a result, in a mere hundred billion years, we and our local group of galaxies will be permanently cut off from the rest of the universe, as if we had fallen into a black hole. No light, energy, or anything else from the rest of the universe will ever reach us.