If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.