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The Precipice
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A Fire Upon the Deep
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Book cover for The Reality Bubble: How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World
For example, if you were to blow up a hydrogen atom’s nucleus to the size of a golf ball in your hand, the rest of the electron shell around you would be a kilometre away. But to understand how small a neutrino is, you would need to make ...more
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Noam Chomsky
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
Noam Chomsky

Roberto Trotta
“You can’t stop the Dark Push.”
Roberto Trotta, The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is

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