Cosmology is the study of the universe itself: how it came to be, how it has behaved since, and why the laws of physics operate the way they do.
It’s one of the strangest branches of science—second only, I think, to the wacky world of quantum mechanics.
But it’s also fun.
The ideas cosmology proposes can be absolutely mind-bending—and mind-blowing. I find it inspiring. To think that our tiny species—barely ants compared to the broad stretch of deep space, barely a blip in the long stretch of time—can probe this far into the secrets of the universe.
So let’s take the plunge, shall we?
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