Sublime
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A project was said to “ask questions about” or “draw attention to” a topic, without any obligation to formulate conclusions or provide an easily digestible message.
With hindsight, we can see that the nonlinearity of digital hypertext and poststructuralism cut two ways: On the one hand, it helped to dismantle master narratives; on the other, it prod
... See moreCan the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Now it’s apparent that nature runs as a massively interconnected system, with the deep sea as its motherboard. Yet even as we tinker with the machinery in potentially irreversible ways, we have only the foggiest notion of how it all works.
Susan Casey • The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Here’s another interesting thought. If glaciers started reforming, they have a great deal more water now to draw on—Hudson Bay, the Great Lakes, the hundreds of thousands of lakes of Canada, none of which existed to fuel the last ice sheet—so they would grow very much quicker. And if they did start to advance again, what exactly would we do? Blast
... See moreBill Bryson • A Walk in the Woods
In the air I’m breathing as I type this, there are pairs of oxygen atoms (each pair is one oxygen molecule) moving at 900 mph bumping into pairs of nitrogen atoms going at 200 mph, and then maybe bouncing off a water molecule going at over 1,000 mph.
Helen Czerski • Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
una cosa que no se puede ajustar: la velocidad de la luz.)
Michio Kaku • Un día cualquiera en 2100
"Systems are highly sensitive to fluctuations. This leads both to hope and a threat: hope, since even small fluctuations may grow and change the overall structure. As a result, individual activity is not doomed to insignificance.
On the other hand, this is also a threat, since in our universe the security of stable, permanent rules
... See moreThe reason that popcorn pops and other grains don’t is that all the others have porous shells.
Helen Czerski • Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability.”