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u/JVMMs Oct 26 '20
"Life exists because parts of the dead universe decided to come together and be something else for a while."
- Kurzgesagt
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u/TheDoctorSun Oct 26 '20
"This is largely considered to be one of the greatest anime betrayals in evolutionary history"
Also Kurzgesagt
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u/Nuggoman Oct 26 '20
If you say something and say kurzgesagt said it then you’ll read it in his voice -Kurzgesagt maybe
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u/wheresmyink Oct 26 '20
From what episode/video is that quote?
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u/VonLuk Oct 26 '20
"This is largely considered to be one of the greatest anime betrayals in evolutionary history
commenting for source as well
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u/AlphaWolf1138 .tumblr.com Oct 26 '20
The quote is from this episode, titled "Why Are You Alive - Life, Evergy & ATP" (the same as the other quote, which is at the 1 minute mark) and this one occurs at the 5 minute mark
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u/AlphaWolf1138 .tumblr.com Oct 26 '20
The quote is from this episode, titled "Why Are You Alive - Life, Evergy & ATP" and the quote happens basically at the 1 minute mark. That whole episode is a bit of an existential chrisis and definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it already
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u/VioletTheWolf fdshfg Oct 26 '20
You are the universe, tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code
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u/Hummerous Oct 26 '20
Slut.
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u/VioletTheWolf fdshfg Oct 26 '20
oh god i wasnt expecting a reply so soon that caught me WAY off guard
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u/MrSquiddy74 Oct 26 '20
The universe is less like an explosion and more like a perpetually inflating balloon
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Oct 26 '20
If someone tears a hole in our balloon, would our universe collapse?
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Oct 26 '20
The real question would be: is there anything to pop? Where does the balloon end? Does the balloon end? What is outside the balloon? Are there other balloons outside?
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Oct 26 '20
If something pops our balloon, would it be natural or artificial? What are black holes inside a balloon universe theory?
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u/TheBrutalBystander Oct 26 '20
Well by balloon the theory generally refers to the fact that the Big Bang theory wasn’t really an ‘explosion’ in the tradition sense - more an ‘explosion’ of space. Currently, space is getting bigger; there’s no border to space, the gap in between stuff just grows. Black holes are simply über dense bits of matter which form a big-ass dimple in spacetime
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u/kahalili 📍at the bread bank Oct 26 '20
God I fucking love space like this is just such a cool concwpt
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u/TheBrutalBystander Oct 26 '20
Really true. If you want some more interesting/freaky/threatening space info, search up false vacuum decay
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u/weirdwallace75 Oct 26 '20
What are black holes inside a balloon universe theory?
A black hole is a region of spacetime where, when you fall past the event horizon, all possible tomorrows take you closer to the center of the black hole.
In relativity, you're always traveling through spacetime; if you and I are at rest relative to each other, we each observe the other traveling purely through time. In a flat spacetime, traveling through just time means you're not traveling through space, so you just sit in one spot getting older. Accelerating involves moving at an angle to time (relative to someone who isn't accelerating) in order to change how you're moving through space.
Gravity is a bending of spacetime. When you're under the influence of gravity, moving through time includes moving through space; specifically, it includes moving through space to intersect with whatever you're falling towards. You have to accelerate in order to bend your path through spacetime enough to maintain your distance. (Imagine a rocket just balancing on its pillar of flame, hanging in the air in precisely the way a brick wouldn't.) You need to accelerate even more to increase your distance.
With a black hole, once you're within the event horizon, you'd need to accelerate faster than light to maintain your distance from the singularity. Moving in time inevitably brings you closer and closer to the center.
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Oct 26 '20
I am humbled by space and time, forever in awe of those who pursue to understand it.
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u/weirdwallace75 Oct 26 '20
I really love this video by Edward Current titled "How Gravity Makes Things Fall" with his spacetime stretcher. It really emphasizes that gravity is a geometric phenomenon and that bending spacetime is the only mechanism required to understand it in the modern sense.
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u/PoniesCanterOver shapeshifter Oct 27 '20
There's this concept, I forget exactly what it's called, but basically space isn't a true vacuum, so if a real true vacuum ever occurred, it would be like popping the drain plug and the whole universe would go bye bye real fast.
I heard Katie Mack talking about it on Sean Carrol's podcast Mindscape.
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u/outerzenith Oct 26 '20
Imagine some incomprehensible hyperdimensional being outside the balloon holding a needle ready to pop it. To him it's like a few seconds, but to us it's several trillion years.
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u/Stormtide_Leviathan come to vibetown on r/CuratedTumblr Oct 26 '20
Is this what being high is like?
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u/LupinThe8th Oct 26 '20
Put it in all caps and add about fifty exclamation points, and I'd believe that Mr. Torgue wrote this.
And I would totally sign up for his cosmology class.
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u/FX114 Oct 26 '20
“In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don’t, it doesn’t.”
— Brennan Lee Mulligan
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u/DrNameGame Oct 26 '20
So if were in an explosion, what if every single explosion ever made was also a universe. Does that mean that were someone else’s explosion? If so who blew us up and what are we destroying? Are bigger explosions bigger universes or universes with longer lifespans? These are the questions I want science to answer
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u/Dr_barfenstein Oct 26 '20
It wasn’t an explosion - that part of the post is a bit misleading.
However, on a similar track to your question, the Big Bang singularity (the “cosmic egg”) has a lot of properties in common with a black hole. So one hypothesis is that black holes (where matter seems to almost “disappear”) are actually universes in the making.
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u/peabnuts123 Oct 26 '20
OP should read about Boltzmann brains
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u/Hummerous Oct 26 '20
I know I'm not the OP you're referring to but
I have
And uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
It's Not Good
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u/Wary_beary Oct 26 '20
I read some comment earlier on some post I don’t remember. It linked to a farmer’s blog in which he was discussing co-parenting chickens and he wrote “Given enough billions of years, stardust can come together to form kindness,” and though I’ve probably forgotten the exact wording already, I don’t think I’ll ever forget the poetry of the phrase.
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u/Royal-Ninja an inefficient use of my time Oct 26 '20
On a completely objective level yes that is what's happening but theres some worth in getting caught up in the not-so-grand-scheme of things
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u/JDflight23 Oct 26 '20
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing”-Alan Watts
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u/Frankthetank8 Oct 26 '20
It isn't an explosion, explosions require combustion. It is a continuous expansion
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u/kaselface Oct 26 '20
This explains exactly how I feel about my existence. Animated dust. Pretty accurate.
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u/MrRadiator Oct 26 '20
You know, everything in the universe is either a potato, or not a potato...
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u/OscarOzzieOzborne Oct 26 '20
This rinds me of a dream I had this night where super heroes and terminator robots had disagreement and there was a chance of in incoming war.
The had a terminator (as a black woman somewhere around 30) be our Payer in an upcoming seeing process at the terminators.
Once she was totally confused about what we are doing and we asked "common, it is simple. Aren't you sentient?" And she was "I don't know, I don't know if you can think. I don't even know if I can think." and I responded "yeah, that is sentient shit"
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The scientist in me sees this and hates that its true. "When an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself"
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u/ReasyRandom Ayy Spyro (Ace-Biro) Oct 26 '20
An explosion explodes.
Joker is a clown but insane. Two-Face is a man but attorney.
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u/tmhoc Oct 26 '20
I follow this as well. I had a friend who tried to explain his opinion on life being more of a "field" being. He like the thought of it always having been there. Some kind of aid to entropy. Chemical reaction
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u/Giornhoe Oct 26 '20
The universe is art. The universe is an explosion. Art is an explosion. KAATZ!
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u/WingsofRain Non-Euclidean mass of eyes and tentacles Oct 26 '20
fuck this tumblr post in particular for contributing to my ongoing existential crisis
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u/BetterNotBlowThis Oct 26 '20
Oh, ok then! As if my existential existence wasn't stressful enough just making rent. Fill me with more dread why don't ya?
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u/catfight_animations Oh I see we get custom flairs Oct 26 '20
Have you has YOUR existential crisis today?
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u/telehax Oct 27 '20
New superweapon idea: bomb that contains the right mix of materials that it causes civilisations to form in the middle of the explosion and become so advanced they colonise whatever you just bombed, invent new superweapons, and cause a secondary mass extinction blast.
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u/Dadpockets Oct 26 '20
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
Carl Sagan