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“We are in our ‘now’ can bear witness to that earlier lifeless epoch, which after the event gives it some sort of a reality. We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval ‘ur-matter’, atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.”
— Frank Close, a noted particle physicist who is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, Nothing: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, p.2.
