Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation - the only one that is tenable - of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.