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Physical cosmology is my favorite bundle of pages to dive into on wikipedia; the articles are so dense with math that I don’t understand and theories that are so weird and out-there. It reminds me that I don’t know everything, and that there is so so much to know and learn about and so much more out there that has yet to be discovered.
Some highlights for me are The Ultimate Fate of the Universe, which is about theories on how the universe will end, and the Shape of the Universe, which seems like a silly thing to question but is actually a really complicated topic. It makes you think about geometry and space in a different way, and kind of breaks your brain a little bit.
Feb 16, 2025
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as someone thoroughly worn out by "multiverses" being crammed into all media, it's refreshing to learn about the theoretical ideas that pop sci-fi has been bastardizing
May 2, 2024
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I don't read non-fiction. I don't read scientific books either. This one, though-this one is warms-my-heart-kinda-special, and all I hope is for the reader to find the same wonder in their life, that Carl Sagan clearly held in writing this book. It made me think; wow there's really people out there who LOVE what they do. He was so passionate about Space and what's there (or what's not). His enthusiasm in explaining this, made it one of my favourites.
Jun 8, 2024
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I love documentaries on astronomy and the universe. However, I find a lot of documentaries to be seriously dumbed down now (...IN A WORLD...). This is not. It's great, and it revolutionized my understanding of space/time.
Feb 7, 2025
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I love that this is becoming more mainstream in recent years. It makes these animals vastly more interesting and complex than they already were. The connection between dinosaurs and birds feels all the more meaningful and apparent, and opens the door to interpreting their behavior and dynamics- we have their living relatives today to learn from. Also, it is cute.
Feb 16, 2025
Feb 16, 2025
You take so many photos throughout your life; how many of those will you actually ever look at again? How many memories will you actually remember? I have so many photos on my phone, 10 years worth of history- but I only recall the context for about half of them, if that much. This photo is from August 27, 2019, 8:47pm. I could not tell you why I chose to record this random instant, or what this is even an instant of. But nonetheless I’ve carried the instant with me ever since. Because at one point it was not random; it was something, no matter its insignificance, that I wanted to remember.
Mar 14, 2025