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SIMIAN helmet

for it, and because she was a strong advocate of what she called infinite-complexity theory: ever more powerful electron microscopes, ever more powerful space telescopes, it didn't matter, you'd just keep finding more: more sub-atomic particles, more galaxies, more space, more time, until finally the distinction between the infinitesimal and the gargantuan became meaningless, the one at some point simply collapsing into the other. What was especially disconcerting, though, was her unswerving faith in a