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azing opportunities for humanity to flourish like never before, if we dare to steer a more ambitious course. 13.8 billion years after its birth, our Universe has become aware of itself. On a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our Universe have discovered that what they once thought was the sum tota

. “This year, debates in physics circles took a worrying turn,” they wrote. “Faced with difficulties in applying fundamental theories to the observed Universe, some researchers called for a change in how theoretical physics is done. They began to argue — explicitly — that if a theory is sufficiently elegant

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