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Two weeks ago was the third CreativeMornings/Montréal talk at Espace pour la vie's shiny new Planétarium, where our friend, astrophysicist and Nexalogy CEO, Claude G. Théorêt gave a very "down to earth" explanation of how our universe was created and how black holes will be the end of it.

It was an inspiring moment. On how the infinitely large is dependant on the infinitesimally small. On how the work of two men, Edwin P. Hubble and Albert Einstein, allowed to turn our whole conception of space onto its head. On how creativity – and the creative struggle – is at the heart of a scientist's work, as he pushes the limits of the unknown.

We've already talked about Claude's startup, Nexalogy, in a previous post, and although this Creative Mornings talk was all about "outer space", it was challenging to think of how, in our era of Big Data, the infinitesimally small is, indeed, what shapes the infinitely large, in the end. Tweets, as the smallest, and often random, possible bits of communication form the quantum-level of human activity – harmless, seemingly trivial. Yet, when they collectively reach certain densities, they start shaping bigger trends that affect the whole system – our societies, our civilization, our planet  – just like particles in the early universe grew to form the black holes and galaxies that populate it today. In short, we live in a quantum soup of data, trying to shape the next galaxies.

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