He leans forward on the edge of his chair, his hands sweeping the air. “Now this”, he says with a grin, “is my favourite fact about the Universe!”

The speaker is Brian Swimme. As a mathematical cosmologist, co-author (with Thomas Berry) of The Universe Story and director of the Center for the Story of the Universe at the California Institute of Integral Studies, he knows a thing or two about the Universe. But Brian is no impartial, objective scientist. He is a man with passion who truly loves the Universe and, even more, the facts about it that he has at his fingertips.

His favourite fact? That ...

 

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