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...works like this: Across the post-Big Bang universe, collections of Higgs bosons make up a pervasive Higgs field - which is theoretically where particles get mass. Moving particles through a Higgs field is like pulling a weightless pearl necklace through a jar of honey, except imagine that the honey is everywhere and the interaction is continuous. Some particles, such as photons, which are weightless particles of light, are able to cut through the sticky Higgs field without picking up mass. Other particles get bogged down, accumulating mass and becoming very heavy. Which is to say that even though the universe...
Opener “Monstar” is another of the album’s best tracks. Filled with electronic beats, claps, computerized voices—à la Kanye West sampling Daft Punk—piano, and strings layered together, the song continuously builds up a seemingly weightless sound. This is showcased as the chorus chants, “I’m back / Celebrate life,” which seems to be exactly what this song is trying...
...that followed, Renoir became one of the movement's first apostates. Impressionism affected many people in the 19th century in much the way the Internet does now. It both charmed and unnerved them. It brought to painting a novel immediacy, but it also gave back a world that felt weightless and unstable. What we now call post-Impressionism was the inevitable by-product of that anxiety. Artists like Seurat and Gauguin searched for an art that owed nothing to the stale models of academicism but possessed the substance and authority that Impressionism had let fall away...
...creativity and style. She used furnishings she discovered at antique fairs around the world to turn them into mini-museums, incorporating items like a 1930s Mies van der Rohe sofa bed, a rare Picasso foulard and green steel furniture by Italian designer Tobia Scarpa. The glamorous Crystal Room seems weightless with its transparent Fendi Perspex furniture. The black-and-white Karl Suite, decorated with 1920s Viennese armchairs, honors designer Karl Lagerfeld (Fendi's creative director) and displays dozens of his fashion sketches. (See the best travel gadgets...
...Usually, the days are crowded hot. / The line into tomorrow’s weightless zone / takes considerable agency. Baby strollers bump / against ones anklebone. What a hangover one has.” We feel...