I haven't received many crackpot emails yet, but this has to be a top tier one, right? It's amazing

We do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy

Lets goooooo

I'm sickened but curious

All of New York right now (me included):

Not trying to take away from any of the actual content/validity of the paper, but it really made me appreciate sectioning, legible figure axes, <1.5" margins, and 1-1.5 spacing

At least they did go into detail about the material production, presumably since they're confident in its reproducability

There really is an xkcd for everything

Turns out my local theater is showing Oppenheimer in a few minutes AND has new reclining seats

I cringed every time I had to use this approximation in my undergrad relativity course

Everyone here forgetting about the greatest time travel movie ever written smh

Still a lot better than the alternative social medias but wow...over 11,500 in the past week

Best grad-level course I've taken was a "dark universe" special topics dark matter course

Prior to each lecture everyone had to read 1 of 2 papers and make a presentation of it. Then we rolled dice to see who actually presented it. It was lots of reading but a really fun/interesting way to learn

An astronomeme so my profile isn't too empty