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Opinion | The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

One possibility, raised by the physicist Lee Smolin and the philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger, is that the laws of physics can evolve and change over time.

That sentence sent literal chills down my spine. Serious cosmic horror of the best kind here. It's an exciting time to follow astrophysics.