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Jul 13, 2022Liked by Julian Gough

It’s like saying when two gazelles collide, they make a tortoise.

Great clarity and damn funny.

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Really liked the spark plug metaphor in this post. Effective language choice makes a huge difference in science writing.

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I really liked this post. If I'm not mistaken, the recent news where JWST has seen many more mature galaxies in the early universe is a point in favor of the model you write about here.

You're a hard man to reach! My first e-mail to you got caught in the flood of new subscribers (congratulations, it's well deserved). The second was an automatic reply about the mailbox being unmonitored. I guess you got too many e-mails with all the subscribers. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the universe intended for us to talk so I made a Substack for it: https://plantser.substack.com/p/hi-julian-im-micke

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Interesting post Julian! I am slowly working my way through all the posts, enjoying the content a lot.

I am not sure if I get which are the four mechanisms you say there are for quasars accelerating star formation, since the list has only 3 main bullet points.

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I have a question about Smolin's theory -- what does it say happens when black holes merge or evaporate?

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