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What is time? What is space? What makes up matter? What is life? What is consciousness? These fundamental questions may seem distinct, even unrelated.
However, take a closer look and you will find that there is an essential unity to Nature.
As surprising as it may be, the same patterns are found everywhere. For instance, lengths of words vary like lengths of genes.
Strengths of earthquakes vary like activity of the brain. Innovations spread like epidemics. Mollusk shells, flower heads, cyclones, and galaxies spiral in a similar way.
Galileo long ago recognized the universality of these patterns, but the reason for it has remained a mystery until now.
This grand regularity is explained by the fact that everything that exists is comprised of the same elemental constituents, quanta of light.
Through this insight, we find answers to many fun-damental questions concerning everything from the elementary particles
to the expanding universe and from biological evolution to the ascent of cultures.
This revolutionary view also sheds light on the meaning of human existence and on the destiny of humankind.
Can we question our beliefs? Can we discern the whole? Are we once again heading towards a change in worldview?