{"id":71911,"date":"2022-05-21T06:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71911"},"modified":"2022-05-02T00:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T04:32:25","slug":"does-the-universe-create-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71911","title":{"rendered":"Does the Universe Create Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Imagine you\u2019re leading a game of 20 questions, and you forget the thing you chose halfway through. You have to keep answering yesses and nos and hope that you think of something that\u2019s consistent with all your previous questions before the game is done. Well, it could be that\u2019s what the entire universe is doing. 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