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“It might be surprising, but in space, as with darkness, emptiness does not mean absence.”

This is with reference to the dark energy that permits matter (and therefore, us) to exist. So it’s actually quite comforting in context.

I wonder if this sense that time passes more slowly the closer one gets to the planet’s core influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs’ tales of Pellucidar?

I hadn’t considered that weaker gravity contributed to irregular shape, but it makes sense.

So not flying, but “falling with style?”

I feel like Keynes was being unfair to alchemy here. Yes, it had its share of film-flammery but it’s also where we got chemistry from.