Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of PhysicsCould there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from Japan to Italy, and through ideas spanning the age, breadth, and depth of the Universe. Using these beguiling Koans and a flair for explaining complex science, Aguirre

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