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I thought the ES group would appreciate this odd event I experienced today... I was at the pool at my aunt and uncle's apartment building in Chestnut Hill, and I see some old guy reading a book on the nature of reality and modern physics. Who reads that stuff but me? (And, I guess, some members of our group!). So, I ask him why he is reading that, and if he is a physicist or a philosopher. Neither. He's an architect, who of course knows my brother (an architect), my aunt and uncle, and half-a-dozen other Chestnut Hill / Mount Airy types whom I know. Small world -- synchronicity, or, as the Chinese have it "yun fen", "fated meeting" or "destined connection". It turns out that despite being an architect, his real love is cosmology and the question of the emergence of the universe! On top of that, he has a group that meets, in Mount Airy, even couple of weeks to discuss the subject. Seems like we are not the only ones informally seeking the mysteries of the universe...