There's a cut off time of like 4 p.m. and sometimes on, I don't remember which one, where if you get your paper in as close as possible after that time, it will appear at the top of the archive. A lot of people open the archive and then they just get like exhausted by the time they've gone through five papers. And so there's this ridiculous like, this ridiculous ritual of when you submit your paper to the archive,. You're trying like, you watch the clock and you try and hit the submit button at exactly the right moment. That makes me so anxious. It should be randomized because it's also been shown that it does matter in terms
Stars. Black holes. THE GAWDANG UNIVERSE. Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) joins to tell us her most embarrassing moments as a cosmologist, to debunk some physicist myths and give the nuts + bolts of everything form particle physics to gravitational waves and existential mysteries. Walk away with cocktail party comprehension of everything from the itty-bitty quarks that make you to the neutron stars banging together across the cosmos. More than anything, get perspective about your life on this, our little pale blue dot.
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