Time does slow down for you the faster you travel though
This is definitely true in Nebraska
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
but the very easiest way of all to travel forward in time is to do nothing special at all and just let it happen
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
I knew i should have specified faster than one second per second.
― ledge, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
faster than one second per second
but cryogenic freezing doesn't alter the pace of time itself; it merely suspends one's perception of its passage even as time galumphs along at its normal rate.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
If I pass through a wormhole or race off and back at light speed or accidentally fall into a cryogenic freezer, what's the difference when I appear/arrive/wake up in the year 3000?
― ledge, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
there is no difference in your perceptions, but there is a major difference in the physics
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
first of all, techno
xp
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
i hold that the techno would be extremely different and immediate
besides that, energy lasers have replaced bullets, every door requires a digital key card, and your name is cobra19
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
cobra19? What is this, the 2500s?
― ledge, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
haha, otm it's true
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
iirc if you can hit warp 10 you will experience being everywhere all at once, but then you turn into a lizard
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
The W boson appears to be heavier than expected:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0101
― StanM, Friday, 8 April 2022 23:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah I've seen skepticism on this from people who know more than me, gonna need a ruling from caek.
― brisk money (lukas), Saturday, 9 April 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
Not my area at all but here’s a couple of posts on it by reliable scientists https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2022/04/09/massive-excitement/https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/04/08/a-few-remarks-on-the-w-boson-mass-measurement/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 April 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
oh! thanks!
― StanM, Saturday, 9 April 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
The James Webb Space Telescope analysing sound from the heart of the galaxy is amazing. I had no idea this was possible(film courtesy of NASA) pic.twitter.com/mrOQ0LnlB6— Chris (@justachrisaway) March 29, 2022
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098472567/image-black-hole-milky-way?t=1652362048265
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/05/12/black-hole-milky-way-bb0124cb43ed0a77533657759baa424f5d5fce7c-s800-c85.webp
― StanM, Thursday, 12 May 2022 13:27 (two years ago) link
itt: stanm posts hole
― balsamic vaccinegar of moderna (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 12 May 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
pictured: the day after spicy food
― StanM, Thursday, 12 May 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
how many billions of years do I have to wait before I'm pulled into the giant black hole?
make it now, please
― mh, Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
dynamically extremely difficult for anything other than dust and gas to get pulled into a black hole, sorry for your loss.
you might get lucky when we collide with andromeda in 5bn years, but both galaxies are almost entirely empty space, so probably not.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:08 (two years ago) link
i can wait
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 12 May 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
fun fact: you could easily fit all the other planets in the gap between the earth and the moon.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 12 May 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
cannot stress enough how empty space is.
Andromeda, the closest galaxy, is 2.5 million light years away. 2.5 million years ago, the first homo habilis started to evolve. If humans could travel at the speed of light (in stasis, I suppose), look around a bit, make friends with some andromedans and then come back, what species would they report to, 5 million years in the future? (if they managed to find the solar system and Earth again and something was still alive here, that is).And that is our closest neighbouring galaxy, remember.there's a lot of space in space.
― StanM, Thursday, 12 May 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
[cue Hawkwind's "Space Is Deep"]
― nickn, Friday, 13 May 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
dust and gas
ease yourself intoa body bag
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 May 2022 03:52 (two years ago) link
A perspective view on Jupiter with artificial vertical relief applied. Processed using @NASAJuno imagery from Perijove 26https://t.co/5EVEk1zX8c pic.twitter.com/N5qlmYLCwT— Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill) August 20, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 1 July 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
beautiful!
― StanM, Friday, 1 July 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
no.
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 July 2022 04:55 (one year ago) link
uh oh, downvotes for Jupiter
― StanM, Friday, 1 July 2022 05:31 (one year ago) link
"Upset stomach? Try Pepto Bismol."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 July 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
*hiccup*
I stand with mookie
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 2 July 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
jwst about to do it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 July 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalivehttps://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
me after a few pints
https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01GFRYYRTCTMX197BY86MBFCR9.png
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
that's where Tar Trek happens
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
damn whut
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 October 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/053/01GFRYSFM89AFADVAA0W625BSB?news=true
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
caek, would you be trying to submit propopsals for using jwst if you were still doing astronomy research, or would that not be especially relevant to the research you did/too much of a hassle/unlikely to succeed given jwst's priorites/etc.?
― circles, Saturday, 29 October 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
you're right that generally you use ground telescopes if possible, because getting time on them is less competitive. ground data was usually fine for my research area. i only used archival hubble data a couple of times, and never actually applied for new observations.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 29 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgQuVotWQAQ_biQ?format=jpg&name=medium
I get that space is fucking huuuge but what I find most startling about this scaling here is not how big "the pillars of creation" is, it's how big the oort cloud is that I find most mind boggling. Like how can a humble medium sized star exert such an enormous field of gravitational influence? Not really a question but wtf!
― calzino, Monday, 31 October 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
Because space is so so empty I guess, there are no other stars near the Oort cloud objects so the sun wins by default.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
Right. Gravity is an incredibly weak force. It falls with distance squared so it’s tiny at the distance of the Oort Cloud. But it’s the only game in town.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 October 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
was reading abou t this in a Carl Sagan book
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2010/11/15/a-focal-mission-into-the-oort-cloud/
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 31 October 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
an incredibly weak force
stop
also someone tell me where proxima centauri's oort cloud is on that graph
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
gravity gets so much respect because it was the first 'invisible' force that was detected and quantified and also because we instinctively respect massive objects like stars and planets more than subatomic particles
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 03:03 (one year ago) link