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Many People Find The Universe Confusing - It's Not.

Time Travel Used To Be Thought Of As Just Science Fiction, But Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity Allows For The Possibility That We Could Warp Space-time So Much That You Could Go Off In A Rocket And Return Before You Set Out.

Science Could Predict That The Universe Must Have Had A Beginning.

Science Is Beautiful When It Makes Simple Explanations Of Phenomena Or Connections Between Different Observations.

But A Machine That Was Powerful Enough To Accelerate Particles To The Grand Unification Energy Would Have To Be As Big As The Solar System - And Would Be Unlikely To Be Funded In The Present Economic Climate.