WORD FACT
A “kenning” is a compound word in which a commonplace noun is described figuratively. Kennings were very popular in Old English and Old Norse poetry.
Well-known examples include:
Whale-road → sea or ocean
Bone-house → body
Sky-candle → sun
Battle-sweat → blood
Kurt Gödel, who was one of Albert Einstein's best friends in his later years, found a solution to general theory of relativity that modelled a strange, unusual and rotating universe allowing for backward time travel.
"Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one."
🚨: Scientists perform first ever double slit experiment in time sending light through temporal slits to reveal wave and particle behavior in a whole new way