The Toughest One: Physicist's Impossible Choice

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The Toughest One: Physicist's Impossible Choice

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The eternal dilemma of time travel ethics! Take the red pill and go back to whisper differential equations to Einstein's nurse, or take the blue pill and casually engineer a Dyson sphere that harvests the entire energy output of a star. Just your average Tuesday morning choices for theoretical physicists with god complexes. The real joke? Both options assume we'd actually leave our desks long enough to do either. For the uninitiated, a Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star to capture its energy output. Totally doable with your weekend DIY kit and some duct tape, right? Meanwhile, altering Einstein's timeline might erase half of modern physics—but hey, at least you'd get to meet the man with the legendary hair!

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