The lives we live cocooned by an illusion of predictability have a fascinating story, bequeathed by the fringes of inconceivable probabilities. The story begins with a bang, the Big Bang, some 13.8 billion years ago.
Fast forward to some 4.8 billion years ago, when our chapter begins — a mid-sized star known as our sun emerges from the stellar nursery, among a thousand others.
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