This is so cool that you don't deserve to hear about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_pit I will pay a very noticeable karmic price for telling you. I think I'm telling you anyway because I'm insane. I have a big 'ol nasty scar right there.
Nuclear reactors produce nearly harmless iodine as a by-product. This iodine is a time-delay poison, because the tense iodine relaxes into reactor-countering xenon. Enough xenon suffocates the reaction. Suicidal xenon kills the reaction, eliminating its progenitor iodine, and ultimately vanishing itself. However, as long as the reactor keeps running, it burns off the xenon before it can build up to suffocating levels.
This is an alchemical metaphor for life in general. Life is either growing, or dying. Because cosmic order is inherently imperfect, life produces anti-life. When life grows, even more anti-life is produced. More than the instantaneous state can handle, so the growing life has to grow more to survive the byproduct of its own growth. Producing more anti-life. Etc.
If a country owns conquered territory, it is normal for the country to need to declare war on itself and conquer itself again. And again. And again. The alternative is to get conquered by someone else. The alternative is to cease to exist, to have nothing to conquer.
If you get married through courtship, expect to have to court and win your already-wife. And to court and win your already-wife.
If you wifenapped your wife, expect to have to kidnap her again, but moreso. And again.
If you discover a new field of wisdom, your options are to re-discover it and re-discover it voluntarily, or to permit it to be forgotten and anyone else who wants to know it must re-discover it involuntarily. There have been no significant discoveries in physics in the last fifty years, meaning, to first order approximation, nobody knows any physics at all. If someone wants to know, he is going to have to start from scratch.
Born, and this makes you want to live? Have to be re-born.
"Normal" is death. The demands of life are never satisfied, except through the cessation of all demand.
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If you wrote a program for Windows 11, expect to have to rewrite for Windows 12. If you bought a game for PS5, expect to have to rebuy it for PS6. Whoa! It holds up.
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