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"Surely you'll find your place."
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"Surely you'll find your place." - Mom
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Place:
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Two-dimensional space.
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Time:
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Not applicable.
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A circle is the set of points in a plane
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that are equidistant from a given point.
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The center of the circle.
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The circle symbolizes infinity.
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Eternity.
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Perfection.
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The sun and the journey of planets around it.
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The cyclic, perpetual motion in the universe.
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Totality.
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The self.
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I suffer from space anxiety.
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I have diagnosed it myself.
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The symptom is an inability to look into infinity.
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If I can’t see the end of things
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I get this strange feeling.
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Actually it's... nausea.
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Space looks infinite because it’s dark.
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The vast majority of the universe is empty,
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and the light of distant stars
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hasn’t reached us yet.
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So maybe the space anxiety is
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just a more elegant word
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for fear of darkness.
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Place:
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Three-dimensional space.
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Time:
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Not applicable.
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A sphere is
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a perfectly round geometrical object.
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It is a circle circumscribing itself from all sides.
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A sphere is the simplest possible shape.
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Its surface is the most compact form
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and due to its overall symmetry,
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it's the least energy-consuming shape.
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Countless objects in nature are spherical.
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The nuclei of atoms.
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Bubbles.
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Drops.
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Planets.
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Stars.
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Even very old galaxies.
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Of all objects we have observed in nature
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the sun is amazingly close to a perfect sphere.
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I often miss the sun
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because I come from a country
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where winter consumes half the year.
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During the darkest time of the year
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there are just a few meager hours
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of light per day.
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In the north the sun doesn't rise at all.
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Every winter I reason I don't belong here.
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That I must've been born in the wrong place
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due to some cosmic disruption.
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The darkness is like a black hole
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that swallows everything surrounding it.
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Place:
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Four-dimensional space-time.
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Time:
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Relative.
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Time.
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Nobody can really say for sure what it is
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- or if it is.
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It seems to be the only thing
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we actually have
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and yet there’s never enough of it.
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One must constantly catch up.
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If nothing changes, there's no time.
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Is time an illusion then?
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But can movement exist without time?
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...the cyclic, perpetual motion...
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Is time after all a changing place?
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...Place: Two-dimensional space. Place...
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Does all time exist already, like all places do,
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or do we just have this one present moment?
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The present eternity.
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No, the eternal present..
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I'm a slow person.
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I need an eternity just to eat a sandwich.
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I've always thought
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I'll peak when I'm a granny.
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That’s when I can finally be slow in peace.
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Spend all days observing
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my turtles in their terrarium.
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But this is not laziness.
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Just old age.
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Being slow has one downside, though.
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According to the laws of physics,
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the slower you are the faster time travels.
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And before you even know it...
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It's winter again.
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Einstein once contemplated
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if the slowness of a body
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depends upon its energy-content.
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And I would definitely say so.
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I don’t have energy for anything
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in this darkness.
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Least of all for any kind of rat races.
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Sometimes I dream of a place without time.
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Although...
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When time ends, light ends too.
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And again I would end up
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wandering in the dark.
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Place: Zero-dimensional space.
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Time: Not applicable.
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Zero is the value for nothing.
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It’s a mark for an empty place.
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Zero is a paradox.
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Zero equals nothing implies
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that nothing is something after all.
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Zero, I know how you feel.
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The more I think about this huge,
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perhaps infinite universe,
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the more I shrink,
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until I don’t matter in the end.
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As if I were nothing.
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But then I remember that zero is nothing too.
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And at the same time
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it's the beginning of everything.
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A circle is the set of points in a plane
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that are equidistant from a given point.
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The center of the circle.
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It looks like a line, but isn't.
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It's a set of points side by side,
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that form an entity together.
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There are so many points
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that the points probably don't even realize
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they form a circle.
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What are you doing here?
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I'm not sure.
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The circle symbolizes infinity.
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Eternity.
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Totality.
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Perfection.
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But a perfect circle doesn’t exist.
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Circles and spheres are everywhere
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but they're all flawed.
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Humans are capable of many things
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but producing a perfect circle
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is beyond our abilities.
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And yet we try.
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Even if we can't even see
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the circle for the points.
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I'm a perfectionist, too.
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But not the kind that works days on end.
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I'm a procrastinating perfectionist.
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Sometimes people think I'm lazy.
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But it’s the universe that’s lazy.
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It'll always try to take the easy way out.
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And a sphere is the simplest possible shape.
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