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Billion Year Old Carbon

Sarp Öngelen

A record of our billion-year journey from star dust to self-awareness. Unpacking the laws of physics and the philosophy of existence through the lens of logic and wonder.

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Gustave Doré, The Empyrean: Canto XXXI, illustration for Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, 1867.

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