Fell off the horizon into a black hole
from Zuriz@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz on 02 Oct 09:50
https://sh.itjust.works/post/47161299

Isotropic rule

You believe the earth is flat. I believe the universe is flat. We are not the same.

#science_memes

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lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Oct 10:08 next collapse

Universe or galaxy?

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz on 02 Oct 10:45 next collapse

The galaxy is a sphere!

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Oct 10:53 collapse

Not ours. The milky way is a flat spiral. That’s why it’s a line in the sky (obviously the stars we see also belong to the milky way galaxy)

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works on 02 Oct 11:25 next collapse

I think this was a joke about flat earth?

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Oct 11:33 collapse

Sure, but I was the joke is to point to something that in fact is flat

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz on 02 Oct 11:43 collapse

Sheeple!

LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz on 03 Oct 01:17 collapse

The universe is flat.

Most galaxies are semi-flat rotating discs of stars.

Only solid-ish objects like planets, stars, moons, and black holes are spheres.

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 02 Oct 10:12 next collapse

Does that rule out worm holes or just wrapping back around if you go far enough

Klear@quokk.au on 02 Oct 10:14 next collapse

It rules out gravity…

LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz on 02 Oct 10:33 next collapse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatness_problem

No, the best evidence we have today says the universe is flat.

It’s a complicated topic, but Wikipedia sums it up pretty well.

Klear@quokk.au on 02 Oct 10:35 collapse

Can’t argue with that. Not like flat earthers think that mountains don’t exist.

OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 19:29 collapse

Damn, I love seeing comments where people change their mind with more info.

I TOO thought it had to be malarkey, and then got existentially panicked, and then read the proposed theories about why and am less existentially aware. Universe is big, man, weird shit, and now it’s kind of in a pizza dough shape? Wild.

rikudou@lemmings.world on 09 Oct 21:01 collapse

Never believed in gravity anyway.

MBM@lemmings.world on 02 Oct 19:20 collapse

Wrapping back around is still possible (that’s the 3-torus universe)

UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 11:22 next collapse

What about living in a black hole

cmbabul@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 12:51 next collapse

You know someone once told me that time was a flat circle

joyjoy@lemmy.zip on 02 Oct 13:29 next collapse

I think time is more of a torus.

yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Oct 15:05 collapse

I thought time was a cube?

jlow@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Oct 21:22 collapse

Somehow that feels like song lyrics to me …

Velypso@sh.itjust.works on 02 Oct 16:58 next collapse

I aint the sharpest tool in the shed

Harvey656@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 21:40 collapse

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey

marcos@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 13:52 next collapse

The Universe is locally flat.

And so is the Earth if you localize it enough.

icelimit@lemmy.ml on 04 Oct 13:07 collapse

When you localise it enough, earth is actually uphill.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 02 Oct 17:01 next collapse

3D-flat as opposed to 2D-flat, or a bigger, crazier theory?

Test_Tickles@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 17:23 collapse

It’s just not carbonated.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 05 Oct 18:10 collapse

Haha, and insert chest joke

callyral@pawb.social on 02 Oct 17:49 next collapse

you’re telling me that parallel lines don’t intersect, and angles in a triangle add up to 180°?

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 18:18 next collapse

You go up enough spacial dimensions and everything looks flat.

General_Effort@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 22:24 next collapse

It seems awfully coincidental that, of all the curvatures out there, the universe should just end up having none.

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip on 03 Oct 05:12 collapse

It’s flat, sure, except for all the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.