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There's something else, Beverly. I'm a minister of the Lord. This will be unusual for me, a kind of experiment.
I know all about it, Reverend. You folks do more experimenting than Princeton's entire physics department.

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I'm really interested in this stuff. Julie rubbed a carton labeled ELEMENTARY PARTICLES.
Physics?
Physics, biology, stars, everything.
Howard said, Good for you. These days most people prefer to impoverish their minds with mysticism.

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Late in my senior year, I went through a crisis of doubt when my provisional girlfriend, a willowy physics major named Morgan Piziks, informed me at the end of our fourth date that anybody seriously in the question Why? should look not to philosophy but to the physical sciences—to cosmology, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, and the periodic table of the elements.
My mind went blank. Try as I might, I could contrive no riposte. I felt instinctively that Morgan's claim enjoyed the nontrivial virtue of being true.

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Your disciples will expect something even grander from you. They'll want you to become a deity.
She snickered and said, I'm not ruling out that possibility.
What sort of deity? A hamadryad? Plato's demiurge? The Creator God of Judeo-Christian revelation?
That job's already taken, she said.
But you could do it better, I said.
When it comes to the physics, no, but in other areas—you're right.

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