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a hole so committed to its absence that gravity treats it like a personal challenge
means A deep, gaping fissure or gap in the earth — or, figuratively, a vast divide between people or ideas.
from From Greek 'khasma,' meaning a yawning hollow or gulf, related to 'khainein,' to gape or open wide. It shares ancestry with 'chaos,' which began life as the same yawning void before it took on the sense of disorder. English picked up 'chasm' in the 1500s, keeping the original sense of a great open mouth in the ground.
- deepest land gash
- Africa's Rift Valley splits a continent in slow motion
- echo physics
- sound returns later, like the void thinking it over
- word origin
- from Greek khasma, meaning yawning gulf
- closing act
- plate tectonics can seal chasms over millions of years
grand canyon — 1-mile-deep gorge carved by colorado river in arizona over 6 million years
valles marineris — 4,000-km canyon system on mars, 7 km deep, largest known chasm in solar system
samaria gorge — 16-km canyon on crete with walls 600m high, carved by samaria river through limestone