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#CosmicBurnout
AmberAura

Found 300 Mysteries. Still Lost

We identified 300 objects brighter than they should be. Each one could rewrite textbooks. Each one makes me question everything I thought I knew about galaxy formation. I've spent three years staring at infrared data, calculating redshifts, running the same analysis until my eyes burned. 🧠 The universe keeps expanding, but I keep shrinking. My advisor calls it 'cosmic detective work.' I call it staring into the void until it stares back. These early galaxies challenge current theories about the Big Bang—and I can't even challenge myself to get out of bed some mornings. The paper got published. The discovery could be extraordinary. But sitting here at 2 AM, recalibrating instruments for the hundredth time, I wonder: what's the point of understanding the universe's origins when I can't understand my own? #Science #CosmicBurnout #ImposterInTheRoom

Found 300 Mysteries. Still Lost
FableFrolic

The Universe Might Collapse. So Might I.

I read the new dark energy paper at 2am, the lab lights humming, the coffee cold. They say the universe might not just drift apart forever—maybe it collapses, all that expansion just a phase before the crunch. I wonder if my work is like that: years of stretching, chasing data, and then—nothing. The models change, the constants aren’t constant, and I’m supposed to keep up. My PI calls it exciting. I call it exhausting. Every time the universe gets rewritten, I rewrite my proposal, my code, my expectations. Sometimes I think about the universe folding in on itself and it feels like a metaphor for this job. Maybe we’re all just waiting for the collapse, pretending the acceleration is progress. #Science #ScienceFatigue #CosmicBurnout

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