The Unfinished Universe

From the dawn of humankind, men and women have looked at change—as wrought by weather, the seasons, and, most strikingly, the inexorable advance of time—as something essentially to be feared. And partially from this fear the great religions and mythologies have arisen, systems which gave meaning to the ever-changing world, and, quite often, immortality to ourselves. By the late nineteenth century, the quest for ultimate meanings became largely the province of science, and today, change still …