Nature's Patterns Sometimes Reflect Two Intertwined Features:

String Theory Envisions A Multiverse In Which Our Universe Is One Slice Of Bread In A Big Cosmic Loaf. The Other Slices Would Be Displaced From Ours In Some Extra Dimension Of Space.

It's Hard To Teach Passionately About Something That You Don't Have A Passion For.

I Think Math Is A Hugely Creative Field, Because There Are Some Very Well-defined Operations That You Have To Work Within. You Are, In A Sense, Straightjacketed By The Rules Of The Mathematics. But Within That Constrained Environment, It's Up To You What You Do With The Symbols.

I Wouldn't Say That The Fabric Of The Cosmos Is A Book On Cosmology. Cosmology Certainly Plays A Big Part, But The Major Theme Is Our Ever-evolving Understanding Of Space And Time, And What It All Means For Our Sense Of Reality.

We Can Certainly Go Further Than Cats, But Why Should It Be That Our Brains Are Somehow So Suited To The Universe That Our Brains Will Be Able To Understand The Deepest Workings?