You are mistaking the map for the territory. It doesn't matter if its a quark-pair or a hyper colossal cosmic structure gravitationally influencing everything in the universe; if a condition is present, then it has effect.
That settles it. I'm going to recruit Chewbacca as my Mook Luitenant. There can be no other choice.
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