If you are into Twitter (as I am), you might enjoy this: New Scientist challenged their readers to encompass the Big Bang into a Tweet. That means the description of the event that started everything that is needs to be 140 characters or less –and actually it was only 133 characters because to qualify, the Tweet had to include the #sci140 hashtag so the folks at New Scientist could gather them all together. Some went the complete science route by trying to summarize the physics (at least one person fit in the equation for Hubble's Law), others quoted ("In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." — Douglas Adams), others took a religious bend, and still others described the event in how it might sound (boom, bang, kaboom or tweeeet). Here's my favorite:
@newscientist < ∞ #sci140 yanikproulx
A fun exercise in brevity.
Here's the rest of their top 10:
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Read the rest of The Big Bang Writ Little (192 words)
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