the universe is refreshingly honest
no matter the question you ask it, it spits out the correct answer
just gotta think of a good question
It’s incredible to think that we have learned the ability to deduce the composition of stars from the light they emit
I think what's even more impressive is how simple it turned out to be.
Human good at make fire. Burn many thing. Learn what light come from what burn! Star emit same light when burn so human learn what star burning!
It's also cool how mathematics blurs the line between invention and discovery. Like, math is just a bunch of ideas people made up and wrote down, but it also appears to be real in some special non-physical way, such that the same ideas would be invented/discovered by other intelligent life.
"As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes."
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
I was reading my uni physics book to study up on magnetism the other day and honest to god, ICP was right, scientists legit do not know how magnets work.
They obviously do. But there is, to this day, debate about whether a magnet can exist as an “isolated” North Pole. It’s like, with electric charge, you can isolate positive and negative charges; that’s what electricity is. But with magnets, nobody has ever been able to separate a north and South Pole: if you cut a magnet in half, you get two magnets, each with a north and South Pole. It’s a fairly widespread belief that magnetic monopoles should be possible
At least, that’s what I’ve gathered. They try to just throw equations at you so you get distracted and stop thinking about it
Can you actually though?
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