#World_of_Wonder Beer and Cheese are two essential but perfectly ordinary ingredients in a Ploughman's Lunch. Combine beer and cheese in a soup, however, and we are in the realm of the weird.

But such is Aldi's celebration of Oktoberfest and my lunch.

#World_of_Wonder Unsurprisingly there's no observational evidence for a fourth spatial dimension. Just as a point is unaware of the line and a line unaware of the sphere, the fourth dimension is beyond our awareness. But we can imagine...
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#World_of_Wonder. At 65 I know something in the darkness will kill me, but I always thought death was an instant not a process. There’s something tragic in the way even a single-cell organism rages against the dying of the light, yet ironically, light is the killer. youtube.com/watch?v=n4wlS5y896E

#World_of_Wonder The Talmud is fascinating because each page is an interrogation of the original text's meaning and purpose by generations of commentators.
I balked at mimicking it's typographical layout in #This_Iron_Race but stole the idea that a text's meaning can be disputed and fought over.

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#Quantum_Entanglement isn't hard to understand because it's unfamiliar. It’s hard because it appears to contradict the observable cause-and-effect of the world in which we evolved. Mathematics describes it perfectly, but the common language with which we describe the world fails us.

#World_of_Wonder Walter Ernest Butler 1898 – 1978 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B... was an #occultist whose books are filled with careful scholarly research and practise that was completely at odds with the wispy and ephemeral research I was doing for my novels and all the better for it.