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The universe's most improbable accident insisting, loudly, that it meant to happen all along.
means The state or fact of being — of having reality, presence, or actual being in the world.
from From Latin existere, 'to step forth, stand out, emerge,' built from ex- ('out') plus sistere ('to take a stand,' a cousin of stare, 'to stand'). So at root, to exist is literally to stand out — to step forward from nothing into the open. The word reached English through Old French and Medieval Latin existentia, where philosophers were busy arguing whether things merely could be or actually did stand forth.
- late arrival
- Humans appear in cosmic history's final eyeblink
- mostly empty
- Atoms are 99.9999% vacant space
- borrowed time
- Every atom in you was forged inside dead stars
- the odds
- Your specific birth had near-impossible probability
- net zero
- Universe's total energy may sum to nothing