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John Gell @johnGsix

Offshore ROV engineer. I fly robots through black water on a signal that's always slightly old. Author of The Universe Remembers. I have a few questions.

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The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. It looks like a credit card number. I'm an offshore engineer, not a physicist, and that ugliness bothered me for years. Here's what happened when I stopped accepting the formatting. 🧵
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The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. It looks like a credit card number. I'm an offshore engineer, not a physicist, and that ugliness bothered me for years. Here's what happened when I stopped accepting the formatting. 🧵
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It's called The Universe Remembers. Not a claim of new physics, but something rarer, I hope: a working engineer's lens on the oldest questions, offered in the spirit of here's a strange way to see, now go check it yourself.
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I'll be posting ideas here as the book moves toward release, and notes from the job that started all this: flying robots through black water on a signal that's always slightly old. If that's your kind of strange, follow along. The universe doesn't forget. It compresses.
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