Comment on God is a dick.

• alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Indeed, but the way the math for expansion works is that there is something called a Hubble horizon and that makes it impossible to ever reach the edge, since it is moving away from us faster than light. (The limit doesn’t apply to the expansion of space-time).

  Quite a nifty solution by the Supreme Programmer to avoid us hitting the limits of the simulation. I couldn’t have designed it better.

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well it was a more convincing solution than just having level crossing arms come down and an infinitely long train cross every time you get near the edge.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Space. It seems to go on and on forever… But then you get to the end and then a giant gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.”

    –Fry, “Futurama”

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  • Lembot_0001@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I couldn’t have designed it better.

    Delta Force game programmers: Ghm, that was a trivial solution to the problem.

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  • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So… is Rick the top God or are there infinite simulations?

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    • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just along the Central Finite Curve.

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• positiveWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And Earth is already stranger than some would like.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And that is scary. If the is one takeaway from observing the universe it’s that there are always bigger and stranger things out there somewhere.

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• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good thing there isn’t one since we probably live in a donut.

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  • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I thought it was technically a three-dimensional donut shape progressing along a sort of 4D taurus that we only exist on the “surface” of?

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a common misconception. We actually live on the surface of a 3D bear claw progressing along a 4D cruller.

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s actually turtles all the way down.

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      • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah shit 🤯

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    • Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Torus*

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  • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It does sort of feel like we’re in the butthole of universes, doesn’t it?

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• BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Imagine there being just no stars behind you. Just nothing. On one side you see the universe, like a wall of stars and lights, and next to that just pure nothingness. The void.

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could never get to the void because space-time has already accelerated the edge of all matter away from you faster than the speed of light.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not “the void,” no, but “a void,” yes. As the universe continues to expand faster than the speed of light, the stars outside of our galaxy will slowly disappear from view. There will come a time when the night sky is just the milky way and darkness elsewhere. I don’t know if anything will still be around to observe it, though.

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  • bravesirthomas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A bit off-topic but the voids in the universe (such as Bootes void) are scary af.

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  • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or the quantum foam, or both, it’d be wild to be able to stare out into that sorta of black, in a metal way.

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• alcibiades@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hey I hear there’s a nice restaurant out there

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