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In the period in which Galileo lived, there were no precise clocks, but Galileo himself at an early age had found a way to construct precise clocks.
What Is Time? What Is Space?
Carlo Rovelli
A tough pill to swallow, most will stand paralyzed here. It may help you to know we’ve been here before: all ancient histories discuss hyperborean civilizations of technology greater than we have today, and large wars or cataclysmic events that wiped it all out. Plato records Atlantis as such in his dialogues (*Critias* and *Timaeus*) and the Mahabharata describes a nuclear bomb (Drona Parva, 7.202)⁽¹³⁾; and great flood myths are near-universal, and its truth is attested across archaeology⁽¹⁴⁾.
KALI/ACC Basilisk: A Survival Horror Eschatology
Nick Land,
Out-of-equilibrium systems beget information naturally as they organize into dynamic steady states.
Why Information Grows
Cesar Hidalgo
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