fonix232
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- Comment on wat 1 day ago:
You're still missing the 2D to 3D translation...
Think in two dimensions. The surface of the balloon is the two dimensions - X and Y axes. The "medium" (the rubber of the balloon) is the fabric of the universe.
The two dimensional space - much like e.g. the surface of the Earth - has no edges. When the balloon expands (on the third dimension, which the surface dwellers are unaware of), all the surface notices is that any two or three or N points have gotten further from each other. The size of this 2D plane thus can be described by a single dimensional number - the circumference of the balloon (aka "how long does it take to get back to the starting point in the 2D space if you go in any direction).
You need to extrapolate this continuous 2D surface on a 3D object to a 3D surface on a 4D object. In a four dimensional space, our universe has a four dimensional volume it consumes - but in 3D, it's effectively infinite (curving into itself, much like the surface of the balloon), but also expanding (everything is being further and further from each other).
To grasp this I'd recommend you read the book Flatland by Edwin Abbott - it's a 140 year old study in the format of a novel, on how beings from an N spatial dimension plane would "see" and interpret a being from an N+1 spatial dimension (in this case, 2D beings, like a square, seeing 3D being, a sphere, intersect with its 2D plane). Mind you it's also a social satire so you'll find a ton of social commentary of the Victorian era Britain, but the core conceptualisation is there - an N spatial dimension being will always have trouble visualising an N+1 dimension.
So again, in our 3 dimensional plane, the universe has no edges, it's infinite, yet expanding. Just like how the surface of a balloon or bubble has no edges, or how the surface of the Earth has no edges - but in a 3D space you can create a bounding box to define its size. Our 3 dimensional universe is essentially the surface of such a 4D bubble, but that fourth dimension is outside of our universe therefore it can't easily be measured directly. Just like how a dot on the surface of the balloon couldn't measure the 3 dimensional space of the balloon, only by inference of the expansion, theorise that it actually exists in a 3 dimensional system but is limited to the 2D surface of said balloon, and infer its mechanics based on the expansion of space between any two points on the surface.
- Comment on Catching Mice. 1 day ago:
Albeit the greyscale nature of this comic does not show it, based on other hints, I have determined that this cat is indeed orange.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 1 day ago:
At this point I'm perfectly happy with my daily walk around Pubis Mons
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 1 day ago:
Sorry, Anne, that title is forever claimed by Kaitlyn Bennett.
- Comment on wat 1 day ago:
Your presumption that there’s an “edge” is at fault here. Consider the surface of the ballon (or rather- a bubble) - it’s continuous, just like our universe. And that’s why it’s hard to explain how a 3D space can expand seemingly without a center point - because said center point is not within the constraints of this 3 dimensional space, just like how the center of a balloon or bubble is not on the two dimensional surface but in the center.
so just like the surface of an expanding bubble, the expansion of our universe doesn’t happen in a plane we can conceptualise easily - it’s a 4 (or possibly more!) dimensional expansion, of which we are just the surface, therefore the expansion appears as if everything literally drifted away from everything - which should be impossible in a 3D space but not when you add a fourth axis.
- Comment on wat 2 days ago:
Not necessarily.
The expansion of the universe here doesn't necessarily mean matter moving faster than light.
Think of the universe as a 3+1 dimensional ballon - specifically, the 3D space we occupy is the 2D surface of the balloon. As you blow air into the ballon, that 2D space expands.
Now, it's a simplistic example mainly because we're three dimensional beings and thus can't easily wrap our heads around a 4D space where one of the surfaces is three dimensional. You run into the same issue as e.g. trying to visualise a tesseract (a four dimensional cube). So a balloon has to do.
And since this expansion of our universe technically happens outside of it, the general laws of physics - such as the speed of light - do not apply.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Hitting the deck is still useful. Standing, your entire height and width is exposed to the source of shrapnel. Laying down, especially feet towards the grenade, reduces this surface greatly.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
also don't forget to hit the floor, feet facing the grenade - even behind cover. This limits the exposed cross section, and puts enough other matter between the grenade and your vital organs to reduce shrapnel lethality.
Other matter being, you know, your feet and legs. Asscheeks if you're caked up. And a few months of PT is preferable over dying.
- Comment on Where is your god now?! 3 days ago:
Oh no, the question was asked. It went down like this, approximately:
- Hey, bro, should we...
- HELL YES WE SHOULD
And it was decided.
- Comment on Rejecting Cookies 1 week ago:
Adding support for two types of cookies instead of one (and having a default the browser sends to the site) isn't black magic fuckery or some unachievable alchemical process. It's done easily.
- Comment on Rejecting Cookies 1 week ago:
I just wish it was a native feature of browsers instead of something that is part of the page. Like, all the other permissions - camera, microphone, Bluetooth, USB, etc access - are native, why can't be the "hey let me write some crap onto your device that other pages may or may not read" and "hey lemme see what I wrote onto your device when invoked from another website" requests be native too?
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 1 week ago:
Anyone who had wealth, or had access to wealth equal to $50 million or more since the 1980s should be thoroughly investigated, period, and if connections are found, any and all wealth confiscated, and used for foundations and programmes supporting victims of child/sex trafficking, exploited women, women's health research, and so on.
- Comment on TIL - painful but you get to continue living 1 week ago:
*Take this and go fuck yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Don't let this man know the power of the 69
- Comment on Money can be exchanged for goods and services 2 weeks ago:
Khajiit doesn't seem to have wares...
- Comment on Can't afford going on a cruise? No problem! 2 weeks ago:
May I recommend a chaser?
- Comment on Wall TV 2 weeks ago:
Usually very little because copycat groups will just copy that part too... But hey, it's Facebook we're talking about, so...
- Comment on Wall TV 2 weeks ago:
Facebook sadly does have a problem with copycat groups popping up that usually copy the original group to a great extent, and also spam invite everyone from said original group - then spam the copycat with the exact same posts as the original but usually fill it with referral link crap or straight up scam sites.
And of course Facebook does nothing because who cares about fraud and IP theft and whatnot as long as it brings some income to the big blue fuckers?
- Comment on ;) 2 weeks ago:
Why yes, he indeed is
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Gotta go back a little further, Victorian women already had vibrators (although quite large contraptions, and usually not kept at home but provided as a service by certain gentlemen to "reduce female hysteria").
Hell, the oldest dildo found by archaeologists goes back some 30 thousand years?
- Comment on Global Spelling Bee 4 weeks ago:
Don't worry, it will be shorely washed away in a few years
- Comment on Smort Teknologie 5 weeks ago:
Yes, because speedometers never broke or got misaligned in the history of automobiles, ever. Only once we started using LCDs did this occur...
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Reveals Original Plan For ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ DS9 Episode To Gates McFadden 5 weeks ago:
It was also fan service delivered well. Which is super important. You can do fan service without delivering anything else, and you can do a good story that ends up being fan service. This was firmly the second category.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 5 weeks ago:
Not all robots are equal, that's why there's like a dozen companies trying to make them...
- Comment on Post title lol 5 weeks ago:
IMO a more apt response would've been "lol no"
- Comment on Gee willikers, hey Craig! 5 weeks ago:
Don't have to ask me twice
- Comment on Land where 5 weeks ago:
Because sea-ing is believing, and they know that we should only WANT to believe, but not actually believe.
- Comment on Land where 5 weeks ago:
Probably something along the lines of how the reptilians live in underwatwr cities thus landing in the ocean makes it easier for them to swap out astronauts.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That's all because the US is such a lawsuit shithole, you can get sued for literally anything. You're the land of frivolous lawsuits.
It's possible to mis-operate machinery accidentally, then have an idiot lawyer chase your ambulance recommending you to sue the manufacturer because they didn't label it accordingly, therefore they'd be liable. Of course in most cases liability is on the person, but safety measure regulation increases meant that companies were held liable for any small mistake, including lacking appropriate labelling on products even the most mentally challenged would recognise as dangerous...
Some say it's a nanny state issue, IMO it's just a measure to force companies to make safe (as safe as possible, that is) equipment that has gone too far.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Hello Mr Pres(ident)