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Trillions of neutrinos are passing through your body as you read this line. And on a table stands a clock …
The iron in our veins was cooked in the core of a star. And the constellations overhead work at once …
A photon leaving the core of the Sun stays on the road for thousands of years; the neutrino born in …
We applaud the craftsman who made the orange on the dome. What do we say about the one who made …
In an eleven-dimensional universe, a sheet of paper floating on the scaffolding of dark matter: the Milky Way. And on …
A poet who brings the winged giant down to a bus stop, and a mechanism that levels the force of …
The fate of the largest systems depends on the dignity and the health of the smallest link. In the ocean …
The silver flecks on the skin of a fig and the stars of the Milky Way; the self-sacrifice of a …
A measuring instrument shaped from raw steel in a Tokyo workshop does not let time flow; it gathers it and …
Bending time, entropy, pulsars, the event horizon and supernovae; and a watch that computes all of those laws onto a …
Time does not flow; it strikes frame by frame. A figure leaping in the window of a watch is the …
Dead chemistry makes every molecule half right-handed and half left-handed, and yet every living thing is locked to one side. …
A blue-green photon struck four thousand metres down, and an order woven from six hundred and eighty-four parts in Glashütte, …
A watch found on empty ground makes a watchmaker a logical necessity. Can the body and the universe, trillions of …
A light-gated door on a pond alga became the key to waking one group of cells in the darkness of …
To listen to the darkest heart of the universe, a physicist looked not at the sky but at the ice …
Looking at the sky is not looking out of a window; it is reading letters kept on the shelves of …
Two metres of thread are fitted into one cell nucleus, and that thread is written with four letters. On the …
DNA never leaves the nucleus. Another molecule carries the plan to the site, reads it and builds. On the wrist, …
A consciousness gliding through the sea of aether speaks with the appointed spirits of the Earth, the Moon and Mars. …
An atom in the soil passes through four kitchens and ends as the tissue of a hand that paints. An …
A traveller climbs from the fifth dimension to the eleventh and speaks at every layer with a spirit that holds …
String theory puts vibrating strands of energy, not points, at the base of matter. Inside one watch, time likewise refuses …
An automaton never hesitates, because it never chooses. A human being stands among the same wheels and draws a path …
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