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“When we see the Earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole. We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.”
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“When you look at the vast size of the universe, and how insignificant and accidental human life is in it, that seems most implausible.”
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Imagine a man wants to build a hill , To make this hill he digs a hole in the ground and uses that soil to dig his hill.
But of course he’s not just making a hill—he’s also making a hole, a negative version of the hill.
Here, The Hole is negative energy and the hill is positive energy.
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Laplace argued that if we knew the positions and speeds of all the universe’s particles, we could calculate their future behavior.
But Heisenberg discovered that due to the way , light waves are packaged into discrete units called quanta, “you cannot measure both the speed and position of a particle simultaneously; the more accurately you measure one, the less accurately you can measure the other”. This rule became known as the uncertainty principle.
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In quantum mechanics, particles do not possess well-defined positions and speeds. Rather, these values are represented by something called a wave function.
A wave function is a set of numbers, each one representing a different point of space. The size of the wave function predicts the probability that the particle will be found in each point of space.
So, We can’t predict the future but we can make it :)
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………suggests that “computers can double their speed and capacity every 18 months. If our gadgets keep following Moore’s law, AI may surpass human intelligence within the next hundred years, making the possibility of a self-aware Skynet less remote.”
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“We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck. We imagine our own importance. We invent our purpose—we are nothing.
Enjoy your f*cking coffee.”
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“So remember to look up at the stars and not at your feet.
Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist.
Be curious.
And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.
Unleash your imagination.
Shape the future.”
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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
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