“Life,” he says, resting his hand on the cold glass window. “Our lives are a rounding error within the cosmos. Not only are our lives far too short, our bodies are made from off-cuts. Regardless of whether we’re thinking about galaxies, stars, planets or asteroids, our bodies are a tiny scrap of minerals, fluids and metals clumping together for a short while. Our bodies are comprised of such a small amount of mass it’s easy to round the amount down to zero—and yet here we are! We might seem insignificant compared to the might of a black hole or the raging furnace of a star, but we’re not.
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Masters of Chaos
