"The great topmost sheet of the mass, that where hardly a light had twinkled or moved, becomes now a sparkling field of rhythmic flashing points with trains of traveling sparks hurrying hither and thither. The brain is waking and with it the mind is returning. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance. Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns."
— Charles S. Sherrington
"[…] the notion of a coordinate system, understood simply as the smooth, invertible assignment of four numbers to events in spacetime neighborhoods. […] the frame of reference, refers to an idealized system used to assign such numbers […]"
— J. D. Norton
Somtimes it kils me how much suffering or happiness can be had by a (trifling, by physical standards) separation in space. But the mechanics, all the little movements involved in getting a macroscopic thing from X to Y are anything but trivial. Spacetime itself is curved. I need to learn more about GR.
All I want to do in games anymore is move through space in neat ways.
I need narrative! It’s narrative! How!
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
