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the universe flexing so hard your problems shrink to a rounding error
means Relating to the universe as a whole — its vastness, its laws, or its scale — and often used to mean something so enormous it dwarfs ordinary human concerns.
from From Greek 'kosmos,' meaning 'order' or 'the world as an orderly system' — the same word that gives us 'cosmos' and 'cosmetic' (both rooted in the idea of arrangement and harmony). The Greeks saw the universe not as chaos but as a beautifully ordered whole, and the adjective 'kosmikos' carried that sense of belonging to the world-order. It traveled through Latin into English, where it has long meant 'of the universe' and, more loosely, 'vast beyond reckoning.'
- origin word
- Greek kosmos meant order and beautiful arrangement
- background hum
- old TV static is partly the Big Bang's afterglow
- star stuff
- your atoms were forged inside dying stars
- deep time
- light reaching you now left before dinosaurs existed
- vast empty
- the cosmos is mostly nothing, generously spaced
cosmic microwave background — radiation leftover from the big bang 380,000 years after, discovered 1964
cosmic rays — high-energy particles from space hitting earth's atmosphere constantly at 600 per square meter per minute
cosmic web — the large-scale structure of the universe mapped by the sloan digital sky survey, showing filaments and voids