How To Be Deep - http://clapway.com/2015/10/14/deep/

You’re friends are always sitting in peace circles having really in-depth conversations about the cosmos, or the inner-mind, or the beyond, or the abstract, or the anything that isn’t sports and candy bars. Maybe they talk about that too, but in a way that is deep. You want to talk deep too. You want to be deep. Well, now you can, just follow these tips.

1. Vague

If you don’t make any definitive statements, they can’t hold you to your word.

2. Silence

Shutting up is the best way to get others to shut up. Practice a stoic look in the mirror; get your eyes to glisten with the bright sheen like those of a curious child’s. This is the look. None question this look. Some may find it bewildering, but most will find it encapsulating. But no one will suspect that you’re a fool.

3. Agree

Everybody likes being agreed with. Say things like “Isn’t it so” and “I feel that way.” If someone asks you to clarify, just tell them you’re not sure how, but you just know it’s right

4. Gibberish

“The lion of our tears cannot be tamed by whip, he must be pounced upon by a cosmic black panther Sheba god, and that’s why the Walkman is out of style.” You hit people with that, and they’ll call you an idiot or crazy, but you just look at them like they’re too small to get it and they’ll start believing that you could be right.

5. Educate Yourself

If you truly want to be deep, than get deep. Instruct yourself on the philosophies and rhythms of the world. Read Siddhartha and The Prophet, and the litany of great enlightening books out there. Listen to Paul Simon and Justin Townes Earle, and give up on dubstep.  Spend the time to lay under clouds and stars, thinking or not thinking, it doesn’t matter so long as you get in the hours.

6. Get New, Dumber Friends

Being deep is lame. Play video games and squish bugs to your heart’s content. As long as you experience joy in life, you’re as deep as you need to be.

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Use SHOWME laser keyboard instead of a table lamp

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How To Be Deep

According to Inflationary #Universe theory, the early universe expanded at an #exponentialrate for the first fraction of a second following the #BigBang. - http://clapway.com/2015/08/30/universe-expanding-120/

The life of the cosmos is a subject of heated debate and fervent speculation for scientists, astronomers, cosmologists and astrophysicists. How did it begin? How did it evolve? How did it assume its current shape and behavior? How will it end? Presently, the most likely theory to appeal to for answers is what’s known as the Inflationary Universe theory. According to it, the early universe expanded at an exponential rate for the first few fractions of a second following the Big Bang.

This theory was put forward in 1981 by cosmologists in order to solve various problems in their own field.

PROBLEMS WITH INFLATION THEORY

One such problem is called the horizon problem. If we follow this theory’s logic, but assume that the Universe is not expanding, and that two photons simultaneously depart from the same point, one aimed at the Earth’s North Pole, and the other aimed at the Earth’s South Pole. The logic goes that, since these two particles could not exchange any information from the time released, the time required to send information from one photon to the other would be twice the age of the cosmos.

These photons in are causally disconnected; they cannot penetrate one another’s horizon.

But this can’t be, since we have already observed photons approaching from opposite directions that must have somehow communicated, since the cosmic microwave background radiation is nearly homogeneous, i.e. unchanging across different sectors of the night sky.

HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM?

We can solve this problem by assuming that the universe expanded exponentially at its earliest beginnings, shortly after the Big Bang. Before this happened, the whole of the cosmos was in causal contact, and at equilibrium with a common, homogeneous temperature. This means that sectors of the universe that are widely separated today were once extremely close together, which explains why photons from these disparate and distant regions have the same temperatures.

AN ANALOGY

To visualize cosmic inflation, imagine the inflation of a balloon. One person at any point on the balloon may think they are at the center of expansion, since each and every neighboring point appears to move farther away as the surface of the balloon extends from the interior pressure.

For more on the universe’s beginnings, cosmic inflation and quantum fluctuations, check out Stephen Hawking’s Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.

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The Universe is Expanding

Is The Universe Dying? - http://clapway.com/2015/08/12/is-the-universe-dying-102/

The early, active, bright, busy happy universe is already losing steam, you see, it isn’t the sort of thing to keep popping and growing as a poet or author of sentiments might hope. Unfortunately, this universe is a friend to decadence, and as our chronometers go on, so too will the expanse of space the universe occupies, but the relatively finite amount of energy will become so thinly spread that nothing will be anything but the darkest, the darkest nothing, for billions of miles, hundreds of light years, thousands of light years, eventually you could walk the distance of the existent universe from one corner to the other without seeing a single spark because it’s all gone.

THE UNIVERSE IS DECADENT

This inevitable de-cadence to nihilism was presented in a paper to the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Honolulu on Monday, August 10th. In the paper, the procedure of a group of researchers is limned, in which 200,000 galaxies’ light from across the cosmos is compared. What they found is this universe’s end: there is about half as much total energy as there was 2 billion years ago.

THE UNIVERSE IS TIRING

Before this is prematurely dismissed as irrelevant out of theoretical impracticality, let’s check our semantics and make sure we’re speaking of the same thing. The observable universe is an incredibly vast empty space littered with dense strands of energy, with stars, nebulae and galaxies, but most ubiquitous are the dark unknown particles which rule scientists’ cosmological models. The physical laws governing the behavior of the universe predict that this massive amount of energy will tend toward homogeneity. Eventually, every particle in every star will run out of hydrogen to burn and go quiet, as it continues to spread across the breadth of space. The universe is not a fiction writer, so why should it specialize in novelty?

“So what that means is the universe won’t be hospitable for life anywhere,” laments John Beacom, physicist at Ohio State University. “Not for our life in the Milky way, not anywhere else in any other galaxy. We’re clearly on this inexorable trend where they are all running out of fuel.”

SENSE AND SENTIMENT

But a reader’s reluctance to accept the universe’s death may actually stem from an anthropocentrism: the universe was never a living thing. “We’re using this metaphor of the death of the universe, I’m not entirely sure what that means,” remarked Leonard Finkelman, a philosopher at Linfield University in Oregon. Truly, those of us trying to be optimists may in this case just be too narcissistically obsessed with Personal Meaning to see what’s staring you in the face, if you would just look at what we’re talking about. Space. Not a bourgeois cocktail party. A dark, inhuman, empty, boundless abyss, of which you are seeing only a relatively microscopic tip. Space.

As far as life is concerned, it is a short-lived, recent novelty that struts and frets its hour upon a miniscule stage, and consciousness may very well be nothing but a mistake in human evolution, one whose highest activity is the contemplation of its own absurdity–that it believe it needs a reason to exist so badly in the face of the cosmos’ ultimate indifference.

Don’t look to vast expanses of the universe for Personal Meaning. Nietzsche once said that whatever you choose, take care that you also choose its eternal return. So before you queue Wagner’s Tristan, consider that we’re here, now, making our own choices, and (save for the possibility of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine) we need not found our worth on the ultimate destiny of the cosmos. Generally, creating a little bit more than speculating will spare anyone from nihilistic ennui.

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