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Click to enlarge slightly Hubble Space Telescope view of thousands of galaxies made during the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. Credit M. Giavialisco/University of Massachusetts, Amherst and NASA The more we learn about the universe, the less we grasp. It’s simply too big and too complicated to understand… and I’m not even sure that the words I’ve just written make any sense. In any case, the central premise of William’s Treatise on the Cosmos is that we humans were not designed to understand what it’s all about. We shouldn't even try to do so.  So let’s simply forget about that would-be question, best described as a non-question …

Frequently on French TV, several times a week, exceptional movies describe the universe, just above the horizon. Without such splendid reminders, I would surely shrink up and die. Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. — Blaise Pascal Children speak the language of Pascal, but differently. And a tweet from Bold Atheism transmits that language. Through the Cosmos ? Yes, forever.