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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If we are in a black hole, then the thing you feared most about falling into a black hole must be bullshit since we are quite fine. Relative to the vastness of shit in the universe, anyway.

[–] diptchip@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's just black holes all the way down.

[–] diptchip@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I got it! We're within a simulation of the innards of a black hole. And that is the first time I've used the word "innards". Lol

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is it not more like all the way out?

[–] diptchip@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Wait... Are we simulating black holes yet?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

One has to wonder lol.

[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 320 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I took a physics course at a community college over 20 years ago and one of the things that stood out to me was the professor telling us not to overthink or assign too much romanticism to the idea of black holes.

His message was basically “it just means the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light… if you plug the size and mass of the universe into the escape velocity formula, the result you get back is greater than the speed of light, so our entire universe is a black hole.”

If this was being discussed at a community college decades ago then I think the new discoveries aren’t as revelatory as they would at first appear to the general public.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 103 points 1 week ago (33 children)

Nah really it was probably some small thing the media got a hold of and just ran with. I think you're spot on

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)
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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Scientist: Scientific discoveries are meaningless when taken out of context.

Journalist: Scientific discoveries are meaningless.

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

another thing I learned at some point: Just because a physics formula returns a result, doesn't mean that it's reality

TBF black holes themselves were originally just the result of a Physics formula, but they eventually turned out to be a "reality". Sometimes that shit happens, yo.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 122 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Okay, so now you can barely afford your rent inside a black hole. Enjoy the enhanced granularity of your desperation!

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can barely afford rent!

Well... the good news is you can stretch your income a bit further with spaghettification!

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[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 64 points 1 week ago (7 children)

paying rent sometimes feels like throwing money into a black hole

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 week ago (14 children)

This is a postulation not a discovery.

Someone did a weird math thingy that gave a word result and this was how they tried to explain it. There's been zero confirmation this is actually the case. Just like they can't decide if dark energy/matter is a thing.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dark Matter/Energy is just a placeholder for stuff we can detect or see influencing things we can detect but have no friggin idea what it is yet. It could be many different things all at once; or nothing and we just got some other things about what we observe wrong. It's just a symptom of taking what we know from observing the universe and reconciling it with what we know about math, and trying to make a mathematical model that recreates the universe as we have observed it.

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[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (11 children)

What if we're not in a black hole, but in the aftermath of a vacuum decay event?

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no my vacuum is working fine, thanks

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But is your refrigerator running?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Haven't been able to get the fucker to stop after storing my meth in it!

I think she's on lap 24,512 now.

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tax breaks for the rich is the only solution

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (25 children)

Ok I've been meaning to ask this in the Space community or the NoStupidQuestions community. I've seen this news circling around the past 2 weeks and have been watching videos of people talking about it.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think the gist is that astronomers discovered with the JWST that some galaxies at the end of the observable universe appear to be younger than they are supposed to be. So it kinda blows a hole in the big bang expansion where objects farther away should be older. And that somehow ties in with the theory that our universe is inside a blackhole.

It's fascinating but I don't know what to do with that information other than just be fascinated. I think it was Neil deGrasse Tyson who said "So what does this new discovery matter to us? Nothing", because us being in a blackhole doesn't change anything in the grand universal scheme of things.

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (14 children)

NOT "discovered inside black hole", just gained further theoretical evidence for the Earth being in a less dense area of the universe. There has been actual evidence of such for some time (at least a decade), but there is uncertainty at such large scales so it cannot be called conclusive based only on a couple types of observation that may have erroneous procedures.

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