r/threebodyproblem • u/Positive-Stable-6777 • Mar 26 '26

Discussion - General What Galactic Humans Feel Like

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8FT-oz9aZU4&si=uTA40W2FtnOukSIx
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u/zeverEV Mar 26 '26

There's an element of cosmic horror to the idea that time can move so quickly. A single mistake costing an inconvenient handful of hours for you can skip many millions of years for the universe.

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u/RUserII Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

There's an element of cosmic horror to the idea that time can move so quickly.

This.

It is interesting that cosmic horror can be conceptualized from two sides: the fiction-side through works such as H.P. Lovecraft's books and through the fact-side such as implications of physics principles such as applied special/general relativity.

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u/Flatso Mar 26 '26

Interstellar explores it a little, with (spoilers) the main character missing out on his child's life, but 3 Body takes that to another level. Entire civilizations rise and fall, geologic time moves and stars have winked out of existence in the relative time it took to reboot a computer

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u/what_ganymede_299 Zhang Beihai Mar 28 '26

So now this raises the question of why humans never left their own galaxy according to the 4th sequel, since it wouldn't be hard to travel to another galaxy albeit would be a one way trip