First Past the Post

So upon writing my first blog post on Thursday I was gonna do another but then I got distracted and then I was from henceforth in lockdown mode in my room listening to some Rachmaninoff doing something beautiful, otherwise phrased as vector calculus. But alas, the midterm is over, the textbook is completely finished, and I am free of midterms for the next 2 weeks.

And with no midterms, comes gratuitous naps and t3h internetz! Since I got home from dinner with my roommates (Aside: we ate at a restaurant called People’s Eatery. It had several signs that had a touch of communist propoganda but the food was great! A typical asian restaurant, in the heart of Chinatown, but well presented in its own manner.) I have been clicking reddit like no there is no tomorrow.

Article of interest today is on the mysterious world of space. A new galaxy has been discovered, except there’s a catch. It’s 10.1 billion light years away. The light we see coming from this galaxy, this image, is 10.1 billion years old. If that galaxy decided to suddenly disappear from the spacetime continuum we would still see it for another 10.1 billion years before it disappears from our eyes. In a perspective of magnitudes, the sun is roughly 7 light minutes away from Earth. Furthermore, it should be important to note that the universe itself is roughly 13.5 to 14 billion years old. The image we see now is of when the universe was just a touch less than a quarter of its current age. I don’t know about you, but I think this is completely phenomenal, and I’m just jumping in circles at the idea of how great this find is. With this data, scientists can determine what the heck was going on with the universe in its humble beginnings, and how it evolved to how it is today. Now if only we had such ridiculous breakthroughs on Dark matter and energy. Proposed in 1933, the term was tossed around for 70 years, and still no one knows what the hell it is. Oh science, how you rock my socks.

That’s all for tonight. Now that midterms are over, I have no excuse to clean my borderline gross apartment. At least there’s no guests. For now. Starting tomorrow, I will make an effort to bring out my camera so it won’t be boring reviews on reddit every time.

Here’s something to finish with. Found this on reddit and thought it was the cutest thing ever.

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