But what if I want neutrino flavors?
Do I have to go to another store?

It’s ok… I practice intermittent fasting.

Dimensionless numbers, not dependent on any mere mortal, subjective arbitrary unit of measurement like length (meters or yards or cubits - same difference) or time.
Whether you are on Earth or a planet in Andromeda or a billion light-years away, if you study subatomic structure you WILL bump into the fraction 1/137. Just like you will in geometry with 3.1416.

Meanwhile, Pi and the Fine Structure Constant watching the show, passing each other the popcorn.

A bullet fired from a gun goes more or less at Mach 1, correct?
It’s thirteen years to the sun at the speed of a bullet?

Spacecraft towards Mercury, or the Parker Solar Probe go much faster than that, take a few years to make it there, but they are doing so picking up speed in flybys of first Earth, then Venus, then Mercury, in several, ever tighter orbits.

It’s both fun and illuminating to try and visualize these things in new ways. In this case, from the viewpoint of a bullet.

Ah… the ol’ pheromone message.

More specifically - this is the most Helena Bonham Carter in a Tim Burton movie… etc

But it wasn’t really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol’ relativistic expansion.

EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there’s the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.

And that’s what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.

That’s just a whole other level of amazing than just saying “an explosion”.

Depends on what you mean by “blind”?

Well… if you put it that way, pulling the lever at least gives me something to do in the meantime.

So… kinda like a wavefunction?

He broke new ground!

It actually could be part of the background urban texture in a cyberpunk world. Like Jollybee or Chow King, Taco Chief could be a large Asia-based chain, peddling… I mean serving… generic tex-mex in places like Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Brunei, Jakarta and Manila, in the year 2050.
Grand opening summer 2051!: Antananarivo and Hanoi.

Nerds saving lives, one vampire factoid at a time.

Pass me a Taco Cheif

Pass me a Taco Sans Serif

Bionic

Hey! Anakin could star in The Six-Million Dollar Sith. Running and lifting shit in slow motion ‘n’ shit.

Taco Chief, coming soon to an urban sprawl near you!

Yeah, but what about “Groove Is In The Heart”, then?

Also: it’s “Pump The Jam”, not “Pump Up The Jam”.

EDIT: Well here I stand, corrected. I can’t believe my mind’s been Mandela-effected for thirty years, I’ve always thought it was just “Pump The Jam”.

???
Profit!

Or maybe you could just Google it.