1. Scientific Theories and Laws
2. The First Decade (1936-1946)
4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)
6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)
8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)
10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)
12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)
14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)
15. The Theory of More than Everything
16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)
18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)
Appendix A Paintings
Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe
Appendix C Musical Compositions
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One character on the Saturday Night Live TV show was close to the truth. During a segment called "Weekend Update," Roseanne Roseannadana regularly complained, "It's always something. If it's not one thing, it's another." Exactly.
Years ago, we had two rules: 1) Matter cannot be created or destroyed. 2) Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Then Einstein replaced those declarations with two new rules: 1) Matter can change into energy and back again. 2) The sum total of matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Now we have two new rules: 1) Matter-energy can change into "nothing" and back again. 2) The sum total of matter-energy and "nothing" cannot be created or destroyed.
Now we come to the very guts of TTOMTE. In Chapter Thirteen, we talked about the most familiar form of evolution, the evolution of life, and the two-step process should be clear by now. First, an accident occurs in the copy process in a DNA molecule during egg-fertilization. Then, if the change makes the creature more durable against outside forces, the mutant will survive to make more copies while other species disappear. There were millions of accidents to get to our level of life, and although evolution is like trial and error, nature had trillions of chances to try different combinations.
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