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Cake day: July 30th, 2025

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  • The concept you’re groping around I think is “the adjacent possible”.

    You can’t create the battery without understanding chemical potential energy and several other concepts. Imagine a house with infinite rooms branching off one another, you can’t reach a distant room without travelling through the adjoining rooms.

    The basic building blocks of everything already exist and have done since the first fraction of a second after the big bang, the key is to navigate a route through to the adjoining room.

    Think of the inventions of Da Vinci, many of those were considered vastly ahead of their time, he was able to “see” forward into other rooms not adjacent but there didn’t exist the technology to realise his dreams of flight etc.





  • Red Onions (and every other not-red food that’s called red) is older in the English language than the word “purple”.

    Purple is a relatively modern concept in English having first been used circa 900AD. Before that basically everything towards the magenta part of the spectrum was all just called red.

    See also Orange, the colour is named after the fruit and not the other way round.