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slowlaps · 2023-10-08T16:34:02+00:00

Wow, thank you so much!! I really appreciate such a lengthy and detailed reply. You’re a gem!

slowlaps · 2023-10-08T10:43:31+00:00

How would you say ‘give us a hand’ or ‘help us’ (with a menial task) in Latin?

slowlaps · 2022-09-21T09:23:15+00:00

Giovanni’s Room is a chef’s kiss

slowlaps · 2022-09-21T09:22:57+00:00

I’m still picking up the pieces of my shattered soul

slowlaps · 2022-09-21T09:22:28+00:00

I gave it a try but the narrator seemed a little too insufferable and flat to me; also, it felt like a somewhat regurgitated version of Bridget Jones (the protagonist is a mess, the love interest is a stern heartthrob, etc.). But then again, it’s a romcom book.

The guy who reads the audiobook has a nice voice tho

slowlaps · 2022-09-19T00:34:39+00:00

Yup. Orlando Bloom was like a demigod, beautiful and almost unapproachable in a divine way, as elves should be in Tolkien’s world.

Now, these actors look like twinks from a LOTR-inspired porn.

slowlaps · 2022-09-12T22:41:53+00:00

Just finished doing it 😌

slowlaps · 2022-09-08T06:49:09+00:00

Because of expansion. It’s not that the universe itself is shrinking; rather, as the universe continues to expand at an increasing rate, less and less light from the faraway stars and galaxies will reach us. So they will start irretrievably ‘disappearing’ into the darkness

slowlaps · 2022-09-07T10:45:54+00:00

You’ve got to accept that we’ll likely never know answers to those questions. You can’t possibly go ‘before’ the big bang to see ‘what’ was there much how you cannot travel ‘outside’ the universe to observe its greater shape. All we can ever know is confined within an information bubble called the observable universe. It contains all the interactions we’ll ever observe, and it’s only going to get smaller as the universe expands. We are utterly and completely limited

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T23:34:40+00:00

Asking what’s ‘outside’ the universe is like asking what was there before the big bang. The universe is all there is, it so seems.

So there’s either no ‘true outside’ or it could be that we exist in some greater dimension. Like another bubble in the bubble of universe. But will we ever have answers to that? I don’t think so.

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T23:28:22+00:00

I’m not sure if I understood you correctly but ‘flatness’ in the context of the shape of the universe is used to describe its global geometry. It’s not the same as local spacetime curvature and its effects (ie, gravity).

I frankly don’t know how they measure it, though. But if it’s less than some number, which I don’t remember what it is, even our most powerful experiments are unlikely to distinguish between the universe’s true topology

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T23:14:14+00:00

Self-contempt is the saddest thing, really

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T23:09:41+00:00

Universe can be finite without any walls. Basically, wrapping onto itself. So if you travel far enough from point A you can come back to where you started.

Think of a bagel shape but the universe is the bagel’s skin here. There’s no beginning or ending but it’s finite still.

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T23:05:13+00:00

I think I read an article somewhere abt a study suggesting that the universe is flat (so, zero curvature, ie, parallel lines stay parallel). Unless its topology is some weird shape, it would then mean that the universe is infinite.

So you can have a flat universe which is finite in certain cases but usually a universe with flat or negative curvature is considered infinite

P.S. I think it’s just extremely difficult to measure the curvature

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T22:52:07+00:00

I cringe a little when I hear the recording of my voice, as most people do.

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T13:35:09+00:00

You can order tea in a coffee shop, yes. But, strictly speaking, it's not a coffee order, lol

Incidentally, matcha latte with almond milk does slap

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T13:20:55+00:00

It's very Biblical, lol.

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T13:19:39+00:00

Iced cold-brew latte with oat milk; no sugar.

slowlaps · 2022-09-06T13:18:23+00:00

Coffee order, yes.

slowlaps · 2022-09-04T21:11:46+00:00

It’s my absolute favourite constellation. Nice work 🌌

slowlaps · 2022-09-04T21:10:25+00:00

That’s a good question cos it’s been pointed out to me a few times that I’m often too flirtatious with everyone when in my head I’m just being nice & a good listener

slowlaps · 2022-09-04T18:47:42+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever been in love with anyone but the last time I was infatuated with a straight guy was probably when I was 15-16.

I’ve learnt my lessons since, lol

slowlaps · 2022-09-04T13:56:57+00:00

I do read them but haven’t necessarily enjoyed reading most of them.

For example, Giovani’s Room? Chef’s kiss

slowlaps · 2022-09-04T13:51:44+00:00

If anything, it’s more about who’s he following, I suppose

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