The question of why the Universe is as it is, is inextricably linked to that of why fundamental physics is the way that it is.

(E)lementary particles come in populations of universally identical particles.

The symbols are 0, ‘zero’, S, ‘successor of’, +, ×, and =.

Most fundamental pictures of the physical world assume that the basic notions – fields, space, and time – are continuous entities rather than discrete bits.

Quantum tunneling processes, which are familiar to physicists and routinely observed, correspond to transitions which do not have a classical path.

[T]he pure mathematical research literature is virtually impenetrable to outsiders.

At present, physicists … search only for continuous pictures of fundamental physics. Maybe, one day, they will be motivated to look at possible structures of a fundamentally discrete world.

[T]he entropy level at the beginning of the expansion of the Universe must have been staggeringly small, which implies that the initial conditions were very special indeed.

The message seems to be this: reality is non-local, so get used to it.