According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

Brian Greene
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Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant people in the world. He is an award-winning cosmologist, physicist, and author. He has written several books on physics and science in general, but his most popular book is "A Brief History of Time." In this book, he explains how the universe came to be in great detail. He also explains how the universe works by using concepts like 3 dimensions instead of 4.

His theories are often described as “simplistic,” but they are far more complex than they seem at first glance. The idea that the universe is all made up of tiny particles that come together to form larger particles is one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history.

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