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“Why do we read with greed? (Or play, or design, etc.?) We want to fill our minds with knowledge the way others want to fill their bellies with food. Information replaces confusion, which many of us experience in interactions with others. It is a place to focus, apart from all the external stimuli in our homes, schools, shops, etc. It is completely within our control how much we want to let in, unlike dealing with people, who are unpredictable and uncontrollable. (Even those of us who are in our own bubble, who don‘t read or seem to look outward much, may have a rich internal world and not yet have such a need to connect.)”
― Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
― Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
“It made his beard a liar.”
― Hemlock Grove
― Hemlock Grove
“An explosion in space makes no sound, as there is no air to transmit the sound waves.”
― The Science of Interstellar
― The Science of Interstellar
“singularities, he asserted, “are a place in which the fiery marriage of Einstein’s relativistic laws with the quantum laws is consummated.”
― The Science of Interstellar
― The Science of Interstellar
“Matthew Choptuik, a postdoctoral student at the University of Texas, carried out a simulation on a supercomputer that he hoped would reveal new, unexpected features of the laws of physics; and he hit the jackpot. What he simulated was the implosion of a gravitational wave.47 When the imploding wave was weak, it imploded and then disbursed. When it was strong, the wave imploded and formed a black hole. When its strength was very precisely “tuned” to an intermediate strength, the wave created a sort of boiling in the shapes of space and time. The boiling produced outgoing gravitational waves with shorter and shorter wavelengths. It also left behind, at the end, an infinitesimally tiny naked singularity”
― The Science of Interstellar
― The Science of Interstellar
corinne barker’s 2025 Year in Books
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