How Andrei Linde Redefined the Universe
The Atlantic ‘It Seems That I Know How the Universe Originated’ The theoretical physicist Andrei Linde may have the world’s most expansive conception of what infinity looks like. Updated at 3:27 p.m. ET on February 9, 2021. In Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Book of Sand,” a mysterious Bible peddler knocks on the narrator’s door and offers to sell him a sacred book he came by in a small village in India. The book shows the wear of many hands. The stranger says that the illiterate peasant who gave it to him called it The Book of Sand, “because neither sand nor this book has a b...
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