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  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoMath MemesProof. trivial. Qed.
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    2 days ago

    “Trivial” and “naive”.
    And I’m looking at Nima Arkani Hamed, he’s either a physicist or cosmologist or both, but in every lecture or interview, if he doesn’t use either word “trivial” or “naive” every minute or so, his forehead veins start popping out and he starts sweating. He can’t be bothered to explain what is evidently obvious… to him, in his ivory tower, so he takes constant fucking non-explanation shortcuts.



  • A whole series of links in a chain that seems to be on autopilot, physically there but mindless, not paying attention. Maybe swamped and saturated with a thousand little things in a thousand little directions, or maybe just an indifferent “Dunno, mate… I just work here”.

    EDIT: at the end of my little rant, I assumed UK or Australia, because the sign seems unfamiliar to my naive eyes.







  • In the 1981 film Excalibur, adapted from “Le Morte d’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory.

    When after years and years lost to an evil spell, King Arthur is free and strong and purposeful once more, he pays Queen Guinevere a visit, at the convent where she had retreated from the world and had become a nun.

    In her chamber, Guinevere reaches under her bed and produces what seems like a miracle: Excalibur itself, which Arthur had regarded as utterly lost. As Arthur takes and wields Excalibur in a mixture of disbelief and delight, Guinevere whispers happily, “I kept it”.

    Then Arthur reels off these parting words, which I shall try to reconstruct from pure memory:

    I have often dreamt, that in the hereafter of our lives,
    when I am just a man, and owe no more to the future,
    you will come to me, and claim me yours,
    and know that I am your husband. It is a dream I have…

    Then Arthur turns, wielding Excalibur, and leaves, en route to fulfill his destiny for one final time.