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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

abolish all rent. see the cat. seriously!

[–] mech@feddit.org 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So this means there are potentially millions of other universes whose portals are within our own?
Good, this one universe did seem a bit too small to hold my ego.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If you mean entering a black hole, well, parts of you will probably make it in. After the spaghettification.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Can't go to work if I'm 1 atom thick.

[–] Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You'll have to log in remotely via teams

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure the audio won't work in space, just like on Earth.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

An atom will not be able to mute in a 10+ people meeting. You'll fit right in!

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

You know they'll still make you try though lol

You'll be (probably) fine crossing the horizon into a sufficiently large black hole as far as spaghettification goes. I dont know where we landed with the whole firewall thing though so that might get you either way

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just tell your landlord we're in a black hole and the rent doesn't matter.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't matter the whole issue

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

You are matter but you don't

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You need to explain to them that rent isn't matter, so it doesn't matter.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

And then punch your landlord in the face. They are a landlord, they probably deserve it.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

Your life just got worse. You're paying rent inside of a black hole.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 21 hours ago

Shiiiit lexx was right

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Does that mean we're having spaghettification for dinner?

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I, for one, would like to see the cafeteria menus in advance so parents can adjust their dinner menus accordingly. I don't like the idea of Milhouse having two spaghettification meals in one day.

time to spagettify spaghettis, lets create hyperspag

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 98 points 1 day ago (2 children)

fact... potentially...

Yes, we're going to ignore a sensationalist conclusion that is not supported by evidence.

[–] Haaveilija@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean technically the sentence structure says that:

  • Fact: NASA has done something
  • That something: potentially discovering that we are in a black hole

So in a sense there is no contradiction there with the words "fact" and "potentially". Although there is a relevant possibility for confusion of what is being stated as a fact, so your point stands. I just like nitpicking on technicalities :D

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

In a sense removed from context, yes.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (32 children)

The actual model is just that, a model. It says that our universe can be described the same way as we describe the information systems around an event horizon, and in many cases in physics, if a system can be described using the same model it is often related, connected or the same in some way.

It's not sensationalist, but it's highly misinterpreted and turned into sensationalism.

It doesn't really give us anything meaningful that we can use or understand the universe better just yet, but maybe someday someone will figure out something that helps us better understand where the universe came from. That's all. It's a very convincing theory if you learn about entropy and Planck-scales and event horizons around black holes, but it's not even sensational on its own.

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[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure that kind of knowledge falls under the "huh. Neat." category anyway. It's the kind of knowledge that, while a cool thing to learn, will have absolutely no bearing on my current life, and is not going to be likely to have any practical applications for many years to come.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's for the folks plagued by existential dread that need to know where we came from. Well son, it's black holes the whole way down.

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 75 points 1 day ago (7 children)

As smug and pretentious Neil deGrasse Tyson is, he said it best, something along the lines of: What does this mean to us in the grand scheme of things? Nothing.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It's been a while so I'm a little hazy on the details, but in one of the Culture books by Iain M. Banks there's a part where a bunch of Minds (for those unfamiliar: kind of beyond godlike artificial intelligences that run a utopian civilization, the eponymous Culture) are talking about how they can create simulations within simulations so perfect that it would be impossible to tell if you were in one, and what if their entire reality was just one in a long chain of nested, perfect simulations? But in the end they come to the conclusion that there's no way to tell and nothing they can do about it anyway, so they might as well just get on with it lol.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you saying that he said that about this in particular or that it's a quote he says about loads of things? xD

On a side note: I don't think we should hate on DeGrasse Tyson, because hating on him seems to be a meme that's just gone too far. Isn't it rooted in a literal 4-chan greentext? But I think he's polite, nice, and the things people interpret as disingenuity are just his presenting quirks. Like the "tweeting the same mirror joke every month" actually has a more neat explanation.

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