Thinking at cosmic and subatomic scales requires plenty of math—or some visual metaphors.

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The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...