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Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

Inquiring Minds

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The Dark Ages

The light ages is trying to re evaluate the scientific ingenuity and principles of the dark ages. Astronomy was the first true science that led to mathematics, that led to a sense of time,. And so all these advances. But we don't have a good perception of what is actually going on with time because it was never necessary. The only way that time starts acting wonke is when you get up to velocities way larger than anything in our biosphere ever get anywhere near.

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