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Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.
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Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?
Awendering
A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I'm sure Germans have one
Saganumenousness.
My suggestion: Simplificatio Adstupefaciendi - A simplification with the purpose to astonish.
On top of sounding cool it is already astonishing to remember and to be able to spell it!
Too much like a Harry Potter spell tho
Releasing the kraken
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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.
Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he's got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.
If he had a TV show, I bet it could reach many people and we might all learn from him.
Holy shit. That was pretty profound.
I love the line "when an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself"
I'd condense the whole post down to:
The universe is an ongoing explosion. Sometimes the exploded dust becomes haunted.
That's us.
No u.
An explosion is pure entropy. It's high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner
We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order
The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy
Perhaps another way to think of it is that we're a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe
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Meditate
Just recently mentioned the conscious universe theory in conversation with a friend.
The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.
The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.
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I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.
You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It's more like that.
The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to "I'm not reading this".
But it wasn't really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol' relativistic expansion.
EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there's the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.
And that's what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.
That's just a whole other level of amazing than just saying "an explosion".
I heard Bill Wurtz voice while I read this
Even crazier space dust!
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
It's not about defining what a living being is.
Jiggling. It's about wiggling and jiggling.
“Jiggle physics is the real science. Everything else is stamp collecting.” - Einstein maybe
"What is a jiggleo?
A dead body
Well, he ain't really dead, but he ain't like
Anybody that you've ever met before
He'll eat monopoly and shit out connect four"
-ICP
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