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Cosmology.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Good thinking isn’t just about asking big questions like the Fermi Paradox—it’s about recognizing the biases that shape our answers and staying open to possibilities far beyond our current understanding.
2.
Quote:
- Heraclitus.
- 500 BCE.
Meaning:
Change is the only form of permanence that exists—first glimpsed by ancient thinkers, and now woven into the fabric of modern science.
3.
From History: From 717 million years ago through 635.
Snowball Earth was a time when our planet may have frozen nearly from pole to pole, testing life and setting the stage for later biological change.
4.
Eight planets. A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star, is spherical due to its own gravity, and has cleared its orbit of other debris.
5.
Quote:
- Carl Sagan.
- circa 1980.
Meaning:
We are not separate from the universe—we are expressions of it, linked by matter, chemistry, and atoms.
6.
From History: 13.8 Billion Years Ago
13.8 billion years ago, space itself began expanding and cooling, setting the stage for particles, atoms, stars, galaxies, planets, life, and us.
7.
Article summary:
We do not know the ultimate fate of the universe, but the leading ideas are that it expands forever, collapses and starts over, or ends in something more extreme.
8.
Quote:
- Copernicus.
- 1543.
From History:
Meaning:
Nicolaus Copernicus judged ideas not by tradition or authority, but by how well they fit the evidence.
9.
From History: 13.4 Billion Years Ago
Galaxies formed early in cosmic history, within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang.
10.
Article summary:
The Fermi Paradox is the common framework for thinking about the odds of alien life, but we need more data before it can become accurate enough to be useful.
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