The Cosmic Chicken-Egg Conundrum

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The Cosmic Chicken-Egg Conundrum

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The eternal cosmological chicken-and-egg paradox that keeps physicists up at night. If physical laws govern how the universe operates, but those laws couldn't exist without a universe to operate in... we've got ourselves a causality loop that would make Einstein reach for the aspirin. Some theorize laws of physics transcend our universe, existing in some abstract platonic realm. Others suggest they emerged with spacetime itself during the Big Bang. Either way, it's the kind of philosophical conundrum that turns department meetings into existential crises. Next week: "Which requires more energy—explaining this paradox or just accepting we don't know?"

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