December 2011
21 posts
The creator locating the tiny region of phase-space (one part in 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 123) needed to produce a 10^80-baryon closed universe with a second law of thermodynamics in the form we know it. if the initial state was chosen randomly it would, with overwhelming probability, have led to a universe in a state with maximal entropy. In such a universe there would be no stars,...
November 2011
129 posts
principles before personalities
honesty hope faith courage integrity willingness humility love justice perseverance spirituality service
charles bukowski
“People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.”
“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
― Rumi
the plains / bitter dancer
just as the sand made everything round; just as the tar seeps up from the ground. Bitter dancer, ever turning, so was the day that you came to town.
you took a room and you settled in; washed off the chalk from your weathered skin. daylight sleeper, bloody reaper. you took a room and you settled in. I should have known one day you would come; all of us walk so blind in the sun. midnight...
anaïs nin
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
PLAY CRACK THE SKY.
We sent out the S.O.S. call, it was a quarter past four, in the morning when the storm broke our second anchor line. four months at sea. four months of calm seas (only) to be pounded in the shallows off the tip of Montauk Point. They call ‘em rogues, they travel fast and alone; one hundred foot faces of God’s good ocean gone wrong. what they call love is a risk, ‘cause you will...
Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, liked to skip rocks. Like most fourteen-year-olds, she was right-handed, so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right hand than when she used her left. As she skipped rocks, she was looking out at the horizon and thinking about an invention she wanted to build. Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because...
r o g u e p l a n e t s
A rogue planet (also known as an interstellar planet, or orphan planet) is a planetary-mass object that has been ejected from its system and is no longer gravitationally bound to any star, brown dwarf or other such object, and that therefore orbits the galaxy directly. Some astronomers have estimated that there may be twice as many Jupiter-sized rogue planets as there are stars.
How big is the milky way?
Imagine that our entire Solar System were the size of a quarter. The Sun is now a microscopic speck of dust, as are its nine planets, whose orbits are represented by the flat disc of the coin. How far away is the nearest star to our sun? In our model, Proxima Centauri (and any planets that might be around it) would be another quarter, two soccer fields away. This is the typical separation of stars...
WHY DO MOTHERFUCKING COFFEE SHOPS BLAST TRANCE...
Watchlive through this and you won’t look back
Richard Feynman: Nobel Lecture - December 11,...
As a by-product of this same view, I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, “Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass” “Why?” “Because, they are all the same electron!” And, then he explained on the telephone, “suppose that the world lines which we...
