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fossilesque @mander.xyz

5mo ago

Explosions in the Sky

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You wanna get together later and rub our dust together?
- Sounds dirty. Will there be cheese?
  
  What, are you crazy? Of course there will be cheese.
  I can’t believe you would even ask me that

Excellent band, by the way.
- yess, I've seen them live twice and I still hope they'll tour again
  
  I’ve got tix to see them in Seattle on Sept 30!
- Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.
- Amazing band, and lovely people too. I saw them in Bristol about 5-6 years ago, and met them after their show. I told them that I owe them my Computer Science degree since they're basically my study playlist, and apparently they get that from fans often.
- First band I ever saw live.
  Still have the smarties they threw to the crowd after the last song.
  Toronto... 07ish
  
  What a great first concert, good for you!
- I’ve got tix at the end of the month!

Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?
- Awendering
- A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I'm sure Germans have one
  
  Numberwang
  
  Ein aha-erlebnis
  
  abgefickt?
  
  Vorshtein?
  
  Verwunderung?
  
  Realitätsverschiebung?
- Saganumenousness.
- My suggestion: Simplificatio Adstupefaciendi - A simplification with the purpose to astonish.
  On top of sounding cool it is already astonishing to remember and to be able to spell it!
  
  Too much like a Harry Potter spell tho
- Releasing the kraken
- 2Deep4Me

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
- This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.
  
  Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he's got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.

Holy shit. That was pretty profound.
- I love the line "when an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself"
  
  I'd condense the whole post down to:
  The universe is an ongoing explosion. Sometimes the exploded dust becomes haunted.
  That's us.
- No u.

An explosion is pure entropy. It's high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner
We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order
The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy
- Perhaps another way to think of it is that we're a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe
  
  Or perhaps more eloquently:
  we're the standing part of a harmonic fart
- But how do you reverse entropy when the last star dies out?
  
  INSUFFICIENT DATA
  
  (apparent deadlink BTW). In answer to the question: slow and steady Hawking radiation from all the black holes, perhaps?
- But are we actually creating order? To maintain life's order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.
  Life is but an entropy maximization machine.
  
  On the overall scale of the universe? No, not even remotely close. On the local scale of the Earth, generally yes.
- ...just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence...
- A single human may look organized, but collectively we are chaos

Meditate

Just recently mentioned the conscious universe theory in conversation with a friend.
- synchroni-city
  
  If we share this nightmare Then we can dream Spiritus mundi

The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
- According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.
  The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.
  
  No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking

I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.
You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It's more like that.

The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to "I'm not reading this".

I heard Bill Wurtz voice while I read this
- Even crazier space dust!

Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
- Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
  It's not about defining what a living being is.
  
  Jiggling. It's about wiggling and jiggling.
- What is "sensing" or "growing" or "respiring" or "excreting" or "eating"?
  
  I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn't you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.

But it wasn't really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol' relativistic expansion.
EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there's the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.
And that's what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.
That's just a whole other level of amazing than just saying "an explosion".

Reminds me of this Pete Holmes bit.

and then downvotes it

Mind that textbook we did in school?
I’m still tripping

Actually I live in a skip but thanks for the pep talk.

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