The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales Of Madness, Love And The History Of The World.pdf (PDFy mirror)

A simpler but less colorful definition of honorificabilitudinitatibus is “with honorableness.” The Bacon anagram for the word is “Hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi,” which translates to “These plays, born of F[rancis] Bacon, are preserved for the world.”

Some cosmologists today calculate that our entire universe burst into existence when a single submicronanobubble slipped free from that foam and began expanding at an exponential rate. It’s a handsome theory, actually, and explains a lot—except, unfortunately, why this might have happened

temperature just measures the average speed of atoms