Twenty questions

• About this book
• Universe – It’s bigger than a breadbox.
• Spacetime – We move across two extents.
• Energy – Energy is all about you.
• Light – It takes off at its own speed.
• Matter – Matter is only a matter of scale.
• Gravity – Gravity is a reality and a metaphor.
• Life – We have always pretended we are unique.
• Creation – The miracle of creation continues every minute.
• Gender – You’d think that genders wouldn’t be needed.
• Consciousness – Two mirrors reflect an endless portrait.
• Homo sapiens – We say we are a species.
• Dreams, hopes, legends – We’ve learned to imagine.
• Visions – We can stress ourselves to elicit visions.
• Lifetime and death – They seem like a condition of being.
• Cellular automata – The governing rules are simple.
• God – God is the creator, they say.
• Angels and devils – They don’t obey the laws of physics.
• Suffering – Suffering seems unnecessarily cruel.
• Attachment – Attachment is not a goal.
• Enlightenment – I fool myself with thinking.