LessWrong: What was your biggest recent surprise?

Original I recently flipped through the “Cartoon Guide to Physics”, expecting an easy-to-understand rehash of ideas I was long familiar with; and that’s what I got – right up to the last few pages, where I was presented with a fairly fundamental concept that’s been absent from the popular science media I’ve enjoyed over the … Continue reading LessWrong: What was your biggest recent surprise?