One of my favourite pastimes of late has been taunting my local physicist friends: “Oh, I cannot make plans later than Wednesday morning because we are all going to die” or “I’m really looking forward to this event horizon thing”. Their facial expressions have been priceless, I tell you. Usually I mostly get affronted linguists [...]
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