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Gnug315's avatar

Awesome post, thank you.

Schmactenberger was the one who broke my spell with his extremely depressed take on the meta-crisis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBoLVvoqVY

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Marcus Ophelius's avatar

Hello Chusana, your writing was excellent! I'm already familiar with the subtopics you mentioned, but the way you linked shaping our lives to the double-slit experiment was particularly fascinating. Physics was my favorite subject growing up—I actually topped my high school class in it, though that's not something to boast about😁. About a year ago, I started getting back into it, especially focusing on quantum gravity, which merges quantum theory and gravity. It’s an exciting field, as some believe the universe didn’t begin with the Big Bang but could be part of a cyclical process, with quantum gravity possibly proving that what we think was the Big Bang was actually the end of a previous universe.

I've been looking for books that make these complex ideas more accessible, and I came across 'Reality is Not What It Seems' by Carlo Rovelli. It was the best book I’ve read so far—it explains how knowledge has been passed down by scientists and philosophers over thousands of years to where we stand now in the world of science. Since this post was about how we can shape our world by looking inward, it made me think—learning new things shouldn't stop, right? I mean, you've written on this topic because of your curiosity and desire to learn. I think it’s important to balance both—embracing the unknown while continuously learning or did I simply misunderstand something here ?

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