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Every Atom In Your Body Came From A Star That Exploded. And The Atoms In Your Left Hand Probably Came From A Different Star Than Your Right Hand. It Really Is The Most Poetic Thing I Know About Physics: You Are All Stardust.

For The Record: Quantum Mechanics Does Not Deny The Existence Of Objective Reality. Nor Does It Imply That Mere Thoughts Can Change External Events. Effects Still Require Causes, So If You Want To Change The Universe, You Need To Act On It.

In 5 Billion Years, The Expansion Of The Universe Will Have Progressed To The Point Where All Other Galaxies Will Have Receded Beyond Detection. Indeed, They Will Be Receding Faster Than The Speed Of Light, So Detection Will Be Impossible. Future Civilizations Will Discover Science And All Its Laws, And Never Know About Other Galaxies Or The Cosmic Background Radiation. They Will Inevitably Come To The Wrong Conclusion About The Universe......we Live In A Special Time, The Only Time, Where We Can Observationally Verify That We Live In A Special Time.

The One Experience That I Hope Every Student Has At Some Point In Their Lives Is To Have Some Belief You Profoundly, Deeply Hold, Proved To Be Wrong Because That Is The Most Eye-opening Experience You Can Have, And As A Scientist, To Me, Is The Most Exciting Experience I Can Ever Have.

The Fact Is That People Would Rather Cling When They're Afraid Of Something To A Priori Beliefs Than Rather Open Their Minds About It.