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Perihelion
“ When a body is orbiting around another body, the perihelion is the moment in that orbit when it becomes closest to its subject. The Earth is at its perihelion to the Sun in early January. The opposite of perihelion is ‘aphelion,’ which is when the body is the furthest from its subject. ”
Syzygy
“I think we expand this to life in general. This is a reification of the idea that two things are a coincidence, but three are a pattern. You can always connect two things with a straight line, but you can only connect three things with a straight line when they form a syzygy. Thus, we discount…”