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Rollo

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7. Many years ago I worked as a student assistant on a research project about a suspected black hole...
Thu Oct 3, 2019, 12:33 AM
Oct 2019

Running lab measurements on various light detectors. Even got a technical mention on the resultant paper. My main contribution was, apparently, that I knew so little that I didn't make any assumptions about what the data should be, so presented it all as is. Which I guess solved a problem they were having. I opted to go in a different direction (biology) but have been fascinated by the black hole theory ever since.

It still boggles my mind that we don't really know the extent of the universe, or if it's infinite, or what.

Sometimes I wonder if I should have stuck with the astronomy.

But I can still see stars at night.

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