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Anticipation · Imagination
Act Ⅶ: Space-time Yonder
Theme: Question of All Questions

If science is the grasp of objective laws, after all it is about the
anticipation and imagination of the future, based on which it
can verify or falsify the laws. The future brings together our
fear of death and our obsession with life. It is the sum total of
all unknowns and the problem of all problems. Whether it is a
rational prediction or a poetic imagination of “then and there”,
as the myriad refractions of "here and now", it always reshapes
our worldviews in the mysterious entanglement of the "knowable
and unknowable", and influences our choices with our instincts
in seeking fortunes and avoiding misfortunes.

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