Article: The universe, said J. B. S. Haldane, is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.(The Week ...)(John Burdon Sanderson Haldane)(Brief article)

The universe, said J. B. S. Haldane, is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. One of the queerest things about it is that its properties at the very largest scales--galactic superclusters--are very intimately related to those at the very smallest--subatomic particles and the teeny "strings" of which they may (or may not) be composed. The big and the small are related because at the earliest point in its history of which we have any understanding, the substance of the universe was crammed together at such inconceivably great density, the "quantum effects" that govern the micro-world were dominant everywhere. Those ...

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