Brian Greene goes to 11 — again

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Aug 31, 201830:55Religion & Spirituality

We live our lives in three dimensions. But we also walk those three dimensions along a fourth dimension: time. Our world makes sense thanks to mathematics. Math lets us count our livestock, it lets us navigate our journe...

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