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Book: 20250930 to 20251209, "The Big Picture" by Sean M. Carroll

Part One: Cosmos 20250930 - 1. The Fundamental Nature of Reality 20251001 - 2. Poetic Naturalism 20251002 - 3. The World Moves By Itself 20251003 - 4. What Determines What Will Happen Next? 20251003 - 5. Reasons Why Metaphysical principles are tempting shortcuts but not reliable guides. p41 The book tries to analyze philosophy using psychology. That's amazing. 20251004 - 6. Our Universe Astronomers estimate that the last dim star will wink out around 1 quadrillion(10^15) years from now. p52 After about 1 googol(10^100) years, all of the black holes in our observable universe will have evaporated into a think mist of particles, which will grow more nad more dilute as space continues to expand. p53 If we build a Dyson Sphere to absorb the radiation around a black hole, that could provide enough energy to support our civilization. 20251004 - 7. Time’s Arrow In equilibrium, time has no arrow. p58 Is this the reason that we age slower if eat less? If we can easily make a pile of ash bac...