Ask HN: What was something interesting you learned last week?

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Some of the things I learned this week:

watchdog for python - cross-platform file modification watcher

There are two great sources of information that support the big bang theory - cosmic background radiation (that I already knew) and the relative densities of hydrogen, helium and lithium as observed with spectroscopy from the sky.

Ghosts cannot exist because they would violate the second law of thermodynamics. By extension, souls are a myth too.

> Ghosts cannot exist because they would violate the second law of thermodynamics. By extension, souls are a myth too.

Could you please expand on that?

this seems to rely on assumptions on what a soul or a ghost would be, and that it would be perse something physical that needs to adhere to these laws.

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