Quotation
Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.”
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Computer simulations are really just virtual time machines.”
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Waves never crash onto beaches and deposit sand in the shape of a sand castle.
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… physicist Jeremy England. He was tall and very thin, with an unkempt beard and a quietly bemused smile. He stood before a blackboard filled with mathematical equations.
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Jeremy England’s theory ... was that the universe functioned with a singular directive. One goal. To spread energy. In the simplest terms, when the universe found areas of focused energy, it spread that energy out..
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To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.
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If blazing sunlight hit a patch of fertile dirt, the physical laws of the earth would create a plant to help dissipate that energy. If deep-ocean sulfur vents created areas of boiling water, life would materialize in those locations and disseminate the energy.