Volume 27 · Gaia to Geometry

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1. Index entrypp. 277–290
   profligate universe

   chapter 20

2. Chapterpp. 277–290
   20. The Accountant of Heaven

   Part Seven — The Profligate Universe

   A non-profligate universe would be the ultimate dull roommate: minimal particles, spectra that stop at three lines, gravity that holds things in neat balls and never bothers with filaments. We got the opposite — spectra, cosmic web, golden spirals, and now the Lorenz butterfly: deterministic laws that amplify tiny perturbations into branching futures. What does the excess do for the minds that notice it?

3. Index entrypp. 277–290
   accountant of heaven

   See also profligate universe

   chapter 20

4. Index entrypp. 277–290
   microcomb

   See also profligate universe

   chapter 20