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In words that still haunt me, Lee Smolin, a physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, once wrote, "When a child asks, What is the world, we literally have nothing to tell her."
My own daughter, Mira, just turned 4 and she is not asking me what the world is made of, quite yet. I've managed to keep ahead of her so far, if only by reading a page ahead in the dinosaur books that occupy bedtime, but the time is coming when she will be calling me and the world's physicists to account.
1 comment:
I realize the seriousness of your question. But, until a more sensible answer comes along, Mira might enjoy this, as good a tale as any at that age (and not too different from what many of the elders believe).
Thanks for the link. Honoured.
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