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physics throwing tiny tantrums of light so beautiful we mistake them for magic.
means To shine with small, bright, dancing flashes of reflected light — or, of a person, to be lively and brilliantly charming.
from From Middle English 'sparklen,' a frequentative of 'sparken' — to give off sparks. The little '-le' ending does what it usually does in English: turns one action into a flickering repetition, the way 'twink' becomes 'twinkle' and 'crack' becomes 'crackle.' So a sparkle is, quite literally, the verb 'spark' caught in the act of doing it over and over. 'Spark' itself goes back to Old English 'spearca,' with cousins across the old Germanic tongues, all describing the bright flecks that leap from a fire.
- made of
- light bouncing off countless microscopic flat surfaces
- diamond trick
- sparkle is engineering, not nature's gift
- stars too
- twinkling is just atmosphere wobbling distant light
- eye bait
- humans evolved to spot sparkle as water
- glitter problem
- those microplastics may sparkle forever in oceans
katy perry song — 2013 hit single that reached number one on the billboard hot 100
twilight sparkle — main character in my little pony: friendship is magic animated series
sparkle motion — fictional girl group from the 2001 film donnie darko