Status Updates From The Rigor of Angels: Borges...

"Just as every measurement involves an interaction and creates a reality exclusive to those parties involved, every individual creates a life that comprises myriad relations. The relations don't bloom between previously pristine individuals; rather, like the particles our measurements detect, the individuals spring forth from the relations themselves."

ahhh, its clicking for me now lol

"The outrage [Oppenheimer] and his fellows felt now, to be implicitly lectured by colleagues who had chosen to continue to work for a regime like that of the Nazis, was palpable. As one American physicist put it, just as the US team had, the 'German scientists worked for the military as best their circumstance allowed.'"

author also just Slays at his history writing cuz ooooooffff

"Like Frost's walker in the woods, when I look back at my life, the path I am on is the one I have taken, no other... I may not infer what I would have found on that other path, but other walkers won't know until they walk down it themselves."

my guy explaining the uncertainty principle in 3 sentences w a robert frost analogy is crazy

"We seek to know the world, to know it perfectly, but the very power of that knowledge, the very source of it drive, stems from its imperfection, its inability to be identical to what it knows... To experience anything at all... is also to experience something else, and to open the imagination toward what could have been, but wasn't."

hmmm i wish this chapter was longer tbh! (so is my free will truly free???)

"...Borges remarked... that [Peron's] party had won because of the votes of' six million idiots.'"

ohhh borges if only u'd been around for us 2024 l o l...