wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 11 hours ago:
Does it jingle and clink when you set it down?
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 11 hours ago:
I’ll take the dubloons, but if they’re cursed I swear to god I will haunt your soul for as long as mine is doomed to wander the space between the realms of the living and the dead!
- Comment on However you say it, youre wrong. 12 hours ago:
an en ee ess
- Comment on However you say it, youre wrong. 12 hours ago:
duh-TAH
- Comment on However you say it, youre wrong. 12 hours ago:
DAY-da
DA-tum
- Comment on However you say it, youre wrong. 12 hours ago:
This datum is conclusive!
- Comment on However you say it, youre wrong. 12 hours ago:
I could be wrong, but I’m fairly certain a G at the end of a word is always pronounced as a hard G. So the latter two are out.
Jog is hilarious though, Imma start saying it that way
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 13 hours ago:
If it’s successful you can slip me my cut in the form of genuine pre-colonial silver coinage. I like how it feels in a sack dangling from my belt.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 13 hours ago:
Damn it! I hate it when random strangers suddenly depost $500 million into TheReanuKeaves’s bank account. It’s the fucking worst!
How’s that?
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 21 hours ago:
Probably because I used to complain about it a lot, and people like to do things that I complain about, specifically to torment me because they think it’s funny, without giving any thought to the reasons why I was complaining about it in the first place…
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 2 days ago:
Insteada takin the test, I took two to the chest
- Comment on Sex Education 2 days ago:
Flame of Udun!
- Comment on Sex Education 2 days ago:
Sigh… unzips
- Comment on Even the worst among us sacrifice 2 days ago:
Even though gas prices were already high when Biden took office, and he brought them down. But somehow it was still his fault.
And then they’re back to some semblance of normal by the time trump takes office, after which they proceed to skyrocket. Naw, still Biden’s fault. Somehow.
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
Everyone must cut out their own tongues and chop off their hands and feet, for inclusivity!
- Comment on Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs (video in body) 2 days ago:
As if your boss isn’t probably a rich asshole too.
What happened to “anything it takes to survive under capitalism”?
Disclaimer: I’ve argued against that idea since the first time I heard it, just pointing out that point who hold it don’t have much ground to criticized the employees of oligarchs…
- Comment on Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs (video in body) 2 days ago:
Man, fuck the Mercers!
- Comment on Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs (video in body) 2 days ago:
Drone-deployed thermite, anyone?
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 3 days ago:
Last day of the rest of my life 😢
- Comment on wat 4 days ago:
we have no better model or understanding
that for some unknown reason
our current models more or less completely break down at around the Planck time
Right, so in other words we have some major epistemic gaps that not even the some of every expert in the field can explain.
That’s why it shouldn’t be viewed as ignorant to ask questions that put a different spin on the problem, that potentially no one has asked yet. And why “this is the best explanation that we have at this time” is no reason to shut down conversation/speculation about it.
Returning to my original point:
Do we though? How do you know our entire known universe isn’t just a local cluster?
How does anybody presume that the universe isn’t vastly bigger than what we’ve observed of it to date?
- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
Parallelism is relevant. If the background radiation happens to be aligned in parallel fashion rather than at random trajectories, then that indicates something different than if they’re moving at random. If it wasn’t relevant, I wouldn’t have asked it.
And just because I ask one question about something specific, which is apparently niche enough that the wikipedia page didn’t even address it, doesn’t mean I’m ignorant on the whole topic. You’re too afraid to ask questions you don’t know the answer to, because you’re afraid it might make you seem ignorant. So you don’t think outside the box, you just rehash the pop science that’s been packaged for you nice and neatly. That’s why you don’t find my reasoning interesting enough to meaningfully engage with.
I’m familiar with the pop science, and that’s why I ask questions that go beyond the scope of what typically gets packaged and presented for us laypeople. If that makes me more ignorant than people who read the pop science and then don’t ask questions, then whatever…
- Comment on Know Yourself! 5 days ago:
Again, unless you somehow take that as evidence that it was in fact Sun Tzu who said that, and not the inscription on the Temple of Apollo, then that makes no difference to what I said.
“Thyself” is a word used by gods, “yourself” is a word used by normal people.
Well seeing as it was inscribed on a literal temple of an ancient deity, it seems “Thyself” would be the more accurate translation, according to your own logic.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 5 days ago:
I have autocorrect turned off but sometimes it changes it anyway. Sometimes it even changes my commas to periods.
Tech companies do not care about consent or user control.
- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
That link doesn’t address directional parallelism.
And if you take my willingness to express a gap in my knowledge as evidence that I just don’t know what I’m talking about and that everything I say should be discarded, then I don’t know what to tell you. Do you have perfect knowledge, free of any gaps? Or are you simply unwilling to admit to having gaps?
If I was willing to admit to one gap in my knowledge, then why do you think that means everything else I say must be bullshit? Seems kinda strange…
Anyway, my main point is that even the experts have major knowledge gaps when it comes to theoretical astrophysics. And they are very aware of that, and willing to acknowledge the incompleteness of their knowledge.
I was simply pointing out some of the errors in the “best answers we have,” explaining why they need to be rethought. If you won’t even consider my actual point simply because I freely admit to not knowing whether cosmic background radiation aligns or has a random trajectory, then this conversation might as well be over.
- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
Yes, I already responded to the other comment. Summarily, I don’t find their argument convincing.
To add, it’s not surprising that everything is moving away from us. To use the other commenter’s balloon analogy, as the balloon expands, so do the circumference and surface area. So any two points on that surface will be moving away from each other as it does so.
It’s also not surprising that the cosmic microwave background radiation appears relatively uniform. 14 billion years of expansion, and we can only observe or “neighborhood” of the universe, mind-bogglingly large as even that is. 14 billion years of moving on a more or less stable trajectory. We can’t see far enough backwards to view the origin point.
Also, if the background radiation came from the big bang, then it would have outpaced us as our galaxy slowed down and the radiation continued moving at the speed of light. This suggests that the background radiation we witness was emitted after the energy that coalesced into our galaxy, and is just now catching up/surpassing us. Unless it’s reflecting off of something further outward, and on it’s way back.
Is there any known pattern to the actual direction of cosmic background radiation? Is it aligned in any way or more or less random?
- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
That doesn’t make any sense, down to the geometric level.
By the nature of expansion itself, there is an origin point somewhere in the center. That holds especially true in the case of uniform expansion.
If “every point in the universe originated from the exact same point” then that origin point is somewhere in the center of the universe, and tracing the trajectories of every point backwards should intersect somewhere very close to that point.
Your balloon analogy supports this thesis. No matter how much the dot expands, the center of the dot is where it originated. Yes, every point on the expanded dot originates from the same point. That point is in the center.
Saying “sometimes physics is mindboggling” in order to rationalize invalid leaps is not a strong argument. Yes, sometimes physics is mindboggling. But that’s no reason to handwave away inconvenient facts whenever we’re trying to argue for something illogical. You need rigorous evidential support to justify a mindboggling conclusion, as is the case with quantum mechanics. Speculative or theoretical physics however cannot simply fill in the gaps with this sort of handwaving.
Honestly, if the concept of time breaks down when you look at t=0, then that only tells me that the idea of t=0 itself is invalid and needs to be abandoned. Especially since there’s no evidential support for that theory, it’s entirely speculative, and has only been justified with the explanation that “We don’t have any better ideas.”
Time didn’t just magically start at some random point before which time didn’t exist. And space didn’t just magically expand into 3 dimensions before which there was only 0. Energy and matter didn’t just suddenly appear without any prior cause initiating some action. All of those things would require violations of the laws of thermodynamics. And in the absence of far more evidence than ever has or even can be found, this “best guess” is full of more holes than many people seem ready to admit…
- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
I’m thankful we still live in a time when we can see the rest of the universe.
Do we though? How do you know our entire known universe isn’t just a local cluster?
If we could see the entire universe, then somewhere in the center we’d be able to point to the origin of the Big Bang. Since we can’t, that implies we’re only looking at a section of the universe analogous to a portion of the surface of a globe.
- Comment on Know Yourself! 5 days ago:
That doesn’t change anything. Your entire point is that what we translate it to doesn’t change the meaning. So how does that matter?
My point isn’t that “Know Thyself” is the correct way. I was using that more or less interchangeably, since they’re synonymous. My point was that it comes from the Greek, not from Sun Tzu.
And unless you can rationalize why the original inscription being in Greek somehow changes that, I don’t see your point.
- Comment on I'm going to change the world 6 days ago:
Trees did it during the Devonian era if I’m not mistaken. This will be at least the third time it’s happened.
- Comment on Know Yourself! 6 days ago:
I think it means something more along the lines of “examine your latent biases and underlying assumptions, know the difference between perception and reality” but “go fuck yourself” works too, I guess…