An elegant idea blooms in your brain fractally.

2024-04-22 · Bits and Bobs 4/22/24

Physicists like hyper compact distillations that bloom and unfurl fractally in your mind as you consider them more deeply.

To people who aren't curious or don't have the necessary background knowledge, the elegant distillation will look perplexing, opaque, unrelated to the question they asked.

But when you have the ability and time to make them bloom, they are transcendent.

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