https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2010.14533/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27875272urn:hackerpapers:mention:2010.14533:27875272Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:34:52 GMT<p>I&#x27;m glad that was helpful. I&#x27;m in a similar boat of just being interested in this for fun. I have a little more of the math and physics background for it, but it&#x27;s pretty rusty and I don&#x27;t need it to understand even most of the interesting papers. You probably want to understand three areas in more detail than you&#x27;ll get from the wikipedia links I sent: 1) cosmology (people gave several good recommendations already) 2) wrap your head around the weirdness of quantum physics. I really enjoyed Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin as a good intro to different equivalent ways of conceptualizing…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2010.14533/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.HE