“'That's the universe unfolding," she told us, "right there in your hands. The same as in every cell of our bodies. Now why? That's the question I can't ever get behind. Why should the universe be alive? Why does it obey laws? And why these particular laws? For that matter, why is there a universe at all?'”
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