Making sense of the crushing of a stone today
I spent a few hours last weekend watching a construction crew, and it's honestly pretty wild to see the crushing of a stone happen at such a massive scale. We usually don't think twice about the gravel on our driveways or the concrete in our walls, but every single piece of that material started as a much larger, much more stubborn boulder. It takes a staggering amount of force to break down something that nature spent millions of years hardening. ...