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  • By Peter DuCharme
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How things become bigger or
smaller reveals a lot about them. How big can a city get and still be a city?
What about a classroom? Can a “theory of everything” describe our universe at
all possible scales? “How much,” we learn, is often just as important as “why”
or “how.” 

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