Connor Paton shares a post about elapsed time related to the Milky Way
Milky Way elapsed time
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This is Mars, sitting 140 million miles from Earth
Mars distance fact
Darkness isn't a void, it's where gravity hits its absolute state
black hole with swirling accretion disk
600 Kilometers per second is the speed at which the Milky Way moves through space. While it travels, the galaxy oscillates slightly, a motion that looks like wings flapping within the cosmos.
Milky Way cosmic movement
An extravehicular activity, or EVA, is what happens when an astronaut leaves the International Space Station. Before stepping out, they clip themselves to the spacecraft. Then it's hours of work, all of it done while…
EVA spacewalk Earth view from ISS
A sea creature named salp is transparent and jelly-like.
salp sea creature
What if the universe is circling some hidden thing we can't see, and it takes 500 billion years to come back around
Individuals construct their lives through default choices rather than stated intentions. The human brain responds to repetition instead of listening to what you mean to do. D.O. Hebb proposed in 1949 that neurons that…
D.O. Hebb neuron wiring rule
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” ― Nikola Tesla
The divorce complaint from Feynman's second wife is real, and somewhere in there the author figures she had it out for Calculus
Prof. Walter Lewin says teachers who make physics class boring are criminals
Author questions whether galaxies function as cells within a larger entity
galaxies as cells in a larger entity
