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Quintessence: The Spirit of the World

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Christof Wetterich is a theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He is also a cosmologist and has written many research papers about “quintessence”. The name alone inspires me to enter into the secrets and mysteries of the Universe.

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Pesce, L. (2019). Quintessence: The Spirit of the World. In: Close Encounters of Art and Physics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22730-2_15

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