Spaghettification

Before I introduce myself, I should probably begin with an explanation of the Blog's title. In astrophysics, spaghettification (sometimes referred to as the noodle effect) is the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long thin shapes (rather like spaghetti) in a very strong gravitational field, and is caused by extreme tidal forces. In the most extreme cases, near black holes, the stretching is so powerful that no object can withstand it, no matter how strong its components. However, the use of the term within this blog is by no means implemented as an astrophysical definition. Instead, the title's definition is more or less a description of the perpetual churning in one's reality. An existential concept if you will. Anyways, while that is the main reason the for the fruition of this blog, I must divulge some time on explaining myself. I am twenty years of age, a musician, a pseudo-writer, a student, and an ever growing lover of science. So if all goes as planned, this blog will hopefully to bring you to the edge of spaghettification! Enjoy the ride! (Also, many of the quotes on here take a serious amount effort to attain insight. With that being said, I advise that you be patient and curious during your browsing!)

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Sounds, smells, nuances of light, even the thoughts we never told each other; we carried them all away and they remained alive: even now they have the power to give us joy and pain.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via transaquam)

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Notes: 26 1/25/12 — 11:48am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxFLd0Tg

Even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point.

Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Notes: 9 1/25/12 — 11:46am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxFLcjLw Filed under: #Philosophy #existentialism #Dostoevsky #notes from underground #rationality #irrationality

Flight of The Concords, “We’re Both In Love With a Sexy Lady”

Notes: 5 1/12/12 — 7:27pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxEgdono Filed under: #Music #Funny #Lols #Flight of The Concords #Love #Hilarious

Notes: 13 1/8/12 — 10:16pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxEUlK43 Filed under: #gymnastics #dance #breakdance #flexibility #badass

Imagine that we could revive a well-educated Christian of the fourteenth century. The man would prove to be a total ignoramus, except on matters of faith. His beliefs about geography, astronomy, and medicine would embarrass even a child, but he would know more or less everything there is to know about God… there are two explanations for this: either we perfected our religious understanding of the world a millennium ago - while our knowledge on all other fronts was still hopelessly inchoate - or religion, being the mere maintenance of dogma, is the one area of discourse that does not admit of progress.

Sam Harris (The End of Faith)

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The Beautiful Milky Way 2 (by Andrew Tallon)

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Notes: 215 1/5/12 — 2:10pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxEJCrBU Filed under: #stars #Galaxies #Milky Way #Astronomy #Beauty

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Tallest Man on Earth

Notes: 4 1/5/12 — 1:00pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxEJ2qgB Filed under: #Tallest Man on earth #Music #Beautiful scenery #Guitar #Acoustic #Song

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

Carl Sagan

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Beirut- Santa Fe

Notes: 5 1/4/12 — 10:33pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxEHcxyJ Filed under: #Beirut #Music #Video #Song #Band

The Dangers of Misinterpretation

To think of the countless misinterpretations of Nietzsche; the countless vile, myopic, loathing, life-denying, putrid, and ungrateful imbeciles that walk around misquoting one of the most profound and enigmatic writers to have ever lived. It is disgusting. But I can’t help but to laugh. because they clearly remain ignorant and unaware. If one does not know about what they are speaking, If one has never read nor become informed about the topic of which they speak, how can they speak without injury? As a current Nietzsche reader, this is the most I would even allow myself to speak about his work-which is really only in defense of his work. One may have their opinions, but one must also know how stupid they will look, and what moronic water they are stepping into, when posting about material with which they are clearly ill-informed.

PRINT THIS POST WORDS: Notes: 3 1/4/12 — 7:59pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZJAeDxEH7D-u Filed under: #Misinterpretation #Nietzsche #Philosophy #Rant #Quotes