Quantum Chaos Quotes

“The distance between us and any star over the horizon is increasing faster than light can cross it. The universe is expanding, every chunk of space is swelling, every day, every year. No one knows why. There’s something called dark energy, but that’s just a name. No one knows what it really is. “But wait!” you exclaim, “the universe is only 13.8 billion years old! Shouldn’t the horizon be 13.8 billion light years?” Surprisingly, the answer is no. Think of space as a grid of squares. Then imagine that each square grows by 1% over some period of time, say, a million years. That means the square next to us is 1% further away after a million years. But the next square over is 2% further away, then 3%, etc. A square that is 100 squares away becomes twice as far away as it used to be. A 1000 squares away, becomes 20 times further. It’s multiplicative. The further out you go, the greater the multiplier. Eventually, you’ll get to a square that is expanding away from us faster than light could travel the distance—even though nothing has really traveled that distance. The grid has simply grown larger.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Chaos

“there was simply no ethical reason to consume a mammal, whether a cow, pig, dog, or dolphin. Each of these intelligent species deserved security from slaughter, even if the responsibility for managing their numbers still lay with Humans. But drop down to a bird or fish, and a fair argument for harvesting could be made. Drop further to an insect or nematode—if that’s what someone really wanted to eat—and they wouldn’t get any argument at all, at least not from Daniel.”
― Douglas Phillips, Quantum Chaos