A faster light speed wouldn’t make a difference, since she made the universe 96 billion light years wide.
Something tells me this isn’t a bad thing. If there is an edge of the universe, it’s probably going to be a very strange place.
Indeed, but the way the math for expansion works is that there is something called a Hubble horizon and that makes it impossible to ever reach the edge, since it is moving away from us faster than light. (The limit doesn’t apply to the expansion of space-time).
Quite a nifty solution by the Supreme Programmer to avoid us hitting the limits of the simulation. I couldn’t have designed it better.
Well it was a more convincing solution than just having level crossing arms come down and an infinitely long train cross every time you get near the edge.
“Space. It seems to go on and on forever… But then you get to the end and then a giant gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.”
–Fry, “Futurama”
Imagine there being just no stars behind you. Just nothing. On one side you see the universe, like a wall of stars and lights, and next to that just pure nothingness. The void.
Or the quantum foam, or both, it’d be wild to be able to stare out into that sorta of black, in a metal way.
A bit off-topic but the voids in the universe (such as Bootes void) are scary af.
KBC Void is scary and cool.
We don’t know how big is the universe beyond the observable universe.
What is observable is constrained by cause and effect. To see something, information must come from there to us. That cause and effect relationship cannot happen faster than lightspeed.
We therefore have no evidence for anything other than the observable universe. Claims about anything else run into Russell’s teapot issues. We can speculate, but it’s ultimately nothing more than a story.
Bro doesn’t believe in dark matter because he can’t see it
We can measure its gravitation.
There is idea in the three body problem novels:
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That the speed of light was infinity at the birth of the universe but sentient species reduced the speed of light several times as a offence/defense mechanism to protect themselves from others.
The mere though of that is dreadful to me.
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Is Planck time even proof of anything let alone god? I mean, even if some glowing entity descended from the clouds and declared, “Behold, I am God,” would that actually convince anyone? We’d just have another person claiming to be god – which, let’s be honest, is not exactly a rare event on this planet.
What even counts as sufficient proof of God? A signed affidavit? A peer-reviewed miracle?A TED Talk with miracles? The whole “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” thing kind of ruins the whole premise. Realistically, we’ll never have proof. At best, we can conclude that proof of God is permanently out of reach.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. I am God.
Light speed is a “you must be this clever to participate” barrier to becoming an interstellar species, that’s all. Even if it’s not breakable, it just means you gotta be able to plan hundreds or thousands of years into the future.
We can hardly plan 5 years into the future, let alone hundreds of thousands… It’d be pretty sad if the answer to the Fermi paradox is that everyone is too stupid to participate.
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, that’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick but out by us it’s just three thousand light years wide. We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point, we go around every two hundred million years and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed thereis. So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space because there’s bugger all down here on earth.
You lost me at miles
Edit: /s for brevity
Same. Miles per second? What the hell kinda unit is that? Over here, we use Texases per lamb’s tail shakes.
Score of furlongs per Mississippi
Edit: duck autocorrect
I don’t want to criticize internet absurdity for many reasons, including but not limited to the fact that I depend on it to survive. Having said that, what’s the application of a length to area ratio?
I am referencing the Mississippi, a time unit. One Mississippi is equal to roughly one second.
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Okay… go ahead!
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You know, if you could use one of them wormhole thingies, you could already be there!
Checkmate!
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And a small loan of a trillion dollars!
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