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Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits

John D. Barrow · 1998

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Sabine Hossenfelder liked it
The book is well written, though not very inspired, and the scientific explanations are well referenced and, for all I can tell, flawless. I'd give four out of five stars if I had stars to give.

on backreaction.blogspot.com · 23 Nov 2011

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.