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Our universe began with a swirling, seething plasma—everything, everywhere, all the same. Today we have galaxies, stars, planets, people. How did such structure come about? How did complexity develop in the cosmos? What are the laws of complexity; what causes them and what drives them?

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Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He refers to himself as a “quantum mechanic”.

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