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The Tantalizing Discomfort Of Perplexity Is What Inspires Otherwise Ordinary Men And Women To Extraordinary Feats Of Ingenuity And Creativity; Nothing Quite Focuses The Mind Like Dissonant Details Awaiting Harmonious Resolution.

Black Holes Provide Theoreticians With An Important Theoretical Laboratory To Test Ideas. Conditions Within A Black Hole Are So Extreme, That By Analyzing Aspects Of Black Holes We See Space And Time In An Exotic Environment, One That Has Shed Important, And Sometimes Perplexing, New Light On Their Fundamental Nature.

The Beauty Of String Theory Is The Metaphor Kind Of Really Comes Very Close To The Reality. The Strings Of String Theory Are Vibrating The Particles, Vibrating The Forces Of Nature Into Existence, Those Vibrations Are Sort Of Like Musical Notes. So String Theory, If It's Correct, Would Be Playing Out The Score Of The Universe.

So: If You Buy The Notion That Reality Consists Of The Things In Your Freeze-frame Mental Image Right Now, And If You Agree That Your Now Is No More Valid Than The Now Of Someone Located Far Away In Space Who Can Move Freely, Then Reality Encompasses All Of The Events In Spacetime.

Cosmology Is Among The Oldest Subjects To Captivate Our Species. And It’s No Wonder. We’re Storytellers, And What Could Be More Grand Than The Story Of Creation?