Physics, astronomy's dutiful daughter, suggests that the object that people call the universe, vast though it is, may be just one of an indefinite number of similar structures, governed by slightly different rules from each other, that inhabit what is referred to, for want of a better term, as the multiverse.

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The primeval object of "veneration" was the goddess with the power to call forth desire from men, and to make barren women fertile.

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