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the state where time evaporates and the rest of the world politely stops existing.
means So fully engaged in something that you lose awareness of everything around you.
from From Latin 'absorbere,' to swallow up or drink in — built from 'ab-' (away) and 'sorbere' (to suck, slurp, swallow). The same Latin 'sorbere' gives us the slurping cousin 'sorbet.' So before a mind was absorbed in a book, the word was about liquid being soaked up entirely — and somewhere along the way, attention became the thing being drunk down whole.
- word origin
- From Latin absorbere, to swallow up entirely
- flow state
- Brain quiets self-criticism, making hours feel like minutes
- skin myth
- Lotion isn't fully absorbed, much sits on top
- black holes
- Absorb light so completely they appear invisible
bp deepwater horizon oil — 4.9 million barrels absorbed into gulf of mexico in 2010
hiroshima atomic blast — city absorbed 15,000 tons of tnt equivalent energy in 1945
amazon rainforest carbon — absorbs approximately 2 billion tons of co2 annually