Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time
Thinking about how gravitational waves pass through us all the time stretching us out and squishing us and changing how time passes has for some reason been one of the most comforting realizations I've ever had. I still don't quite have the right words for why, but to me it kind of answers questions like if we are in a simulation (my hunch is no) and weird head trip questions that can be depersonalizing like that from my perspective last Tuesday I started hallucinating all of this including everything I think is my history. Not that I think that, just something about the foam of turbulent gravity washing over all of us invisibly. Yeah, comforting.