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Ether/Or — The story of black holes, and how I temporarily lost my mind over an Amazon review

exurb1a
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1.6M views 2 years ago
*Painfully idiotic correction: that seems to be Jupiter and its moons up the telescope, not Saturn. How massively embarrassing. Matthew Mcconaughey went into that black hole in Interstellar and somehow remained all right, all right, all right. New book of depressing poems: https://tinyurl.com/27fdfh63 (you may need to change your region) My other stuff: Books what I wrote yo ► https://www.amazon.com/Exurb1a/e/B06X... For sending personalised insults ►   / exurb1a   T-shirts, mugs, and sadness ► https://teespring.com/stores/exurb1a I also make horrendous music ►   / exurbia-1   Help me to do this full-time if you're deranged enough (and thank you kindly) ► https://www.patreon.com/exurb1r?ty=h A bit of context: I made a video a few years back called Let's Build a Time Machine with Pickles and Sadness. It was awful. The initial idea had been to try explaining what a gap there currently is between general relativity and quantum mechanics. …...more
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Ether/Or — The story of black holes, and how I temporarily lost my mind over an Amazon review
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2023Apr 10
*Painfully idiotic correction: that seems to be Jupiter and its moons up the telescope, not Saturn. How massively embarrassing. Matthew Mcconaughey went into that black hole in Interstellar and somehow remained all right, all right, all right. New book of depressing poems: https://tinyurl.com/27fdfh63 (you may need to change your region) My other stuff: Books what I wrote yo ► https://www.amazon.com/Exurb1a/e/B06X... For sending personalised insults ►   / exurb1a   T-shirts, mugs, and sadness ► https://teespring.com/stores/exurb1a I also make horrendous music ►   / exurbia-1   Help me to do this full-time if you're deranged enough (and thank you kindly) ► https://www.patreon.com/exurb1r?ty=h A bit of context: I made a video a few years back called Let's Build a Time Machine with Pickles and Sadness. It was awful. The initial idea had been to try explaining what a gap there currently is between general relativity and quantum mechanics. What came out instead was the video equivalent of soft-serve vanilla ice cream garnished with ostrich droppings. But the thing has been haunting me ever since and I wanted to give it another go. So that's what this was. Why on earth are you so far down in the description anyway? Are you looking for a completely unrelated mystery link? Because that's what you'll find, oh yes you will:    • Tolkien explains why the Fellowship didn't...   Music used ► Csárdás by Vittorio Monti -    • David Garrett - Csárdás by Vittorio Monti ...   The Labyrinth of Freedom - Ayşedeniz Gökçin And of course Dvorak's Op. 96, 4th movement -    • Dvorak: String Quartet  Op. 96 "American" ...  

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exurb1a

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