My work here is doneI'm now off to have tea with a friend who did her Masters in, coincidentally, string theory. Which involves picking random bits of the 'string landscape' and seeing if they could be our universe. (No, they couldn't. But your likelihood of finding a bit of the landscape that contains our universe is roughly 1 part in 100000000000000000000.....0000000. There's between 100 and 500 zeroes there.)
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