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Photon
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•what if solar systems are synonymous to atoms in that they are the minute building blocks of something greater?
1·3 years agoIt’s possible, but the theory assumes we’re operating within the same physics, just different scales of time and space. Supposing there are other universes with their own laws of physics is rather arbitrary, and you could literally argue anything :)
I would argue a universe as a unit is a terrible candidate for an atom for a super-universe since our physics assumes it is a closed system. It would be neat if we weren’t bound by the heat-death of the universe and somehow low entropic states could leak back in. But that is all pure speculation and it cannot be proven or disproven from a scientific point of view.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•what if solar systems are synonymous to atoms in that they are the minute building blocks of something greater?
1·3 years agoSubatomic particles are still constrained by the same speed of light as larger objects. As you scale up the speed by which this recursive universe operates in, this limit becomes more and more significant, and fewer interactions can occur in the relative unit of time.
To put it another way, if this super-universe were to use solar systems as atoms, the speed of light would mean their timescale would be in the billions of our years to their seconds. This is derived from the picosecond delay of forces acting between our atoms and scaling up to the solar system “atoms” that make up our galactic neighborhood (10-100 light years apart). So solar systems couldn’t be atoms on this timescale because they would do little but coalesce some of the intergalactic medium and die in seconds.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•what if solar systems are synonymous to atoms in that they are the minute building blocks of something greater?
1·3 years agoThe biggest issue with this idea is the speed of light. Atoms participate in a lot of interactions because subatomic particles act nearly instantaneously. There are millions of interactions occurring within a single proton at any given moment, with various virtual particles annihilating one another. Even if you increased the time scale, space is extremely large and there just wouldn’t be a lot happening in a solar system. There would be slight perturbations in orbits, and the sun would go through cycles quickly, but it’s extremely stable when compared to an atom.
Then if you look on a galaxy-wide perspective, the actions within the solar system are irrelevant to most of the galaxy. It would take a hundred thousand years for even the sun burning out to register, and more than likely it wouldn’t even matter for any other solar systems in our area.
Then if you look beyond galaxies, it’s mostly just the intergalactic medium being siphoned one way or the other, with only the random movement of galaxies determining anything.
Atoms have the weak and strong nuclear forces, as well as electromagnetism to create the complexity of the universe. Solar systems have little else but gravity, constrained by incredible distances even on the scale of the speed of light.
This is another one of those videos that spends a lot of time in lateral subjects without diving deeper in the main subject. I thought the idea that earth radiates energy made by biological processes fairly significant, and a far more interesting thought experiment to meditate on (Can we find aliens by looking at the thermal signature of exoplanets? Is there a methodology we can use to measure the efficiency of life?). Instead, it covers extremely basic principles of thermodynamics and heat pumps, which has been done to death in other videos.
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World News@lemmy.world•The First Images of the Titan Submersible bein bought ashore
2·3 years agoThe bodies can’t implode; the lungs can/will collapse but that is pretty much the least of the issues. Even if the bodies aren’t pulverized by the collapsing sub, the water will hit like a hammer traveling at supersonic speeds. So probably a combination of rendering into mincemeat, dismemberment, and scattering of the human remains would result from such an implosion. A destruction on par with being hit by a bomb at ground zero.
Photon@kbin.socialtoScience@kbin.social•Novel drug could treat long COVID and prevent re-infection
4·3 years agoDoes science need some moderators? I am getting really tired of fluff and PR pieces posted here.
Photon@kbin.socialtoScience@kbin.social•Life Cycle Emissions: EVs vs. Combustion Engine Vehicles
13·3 years agoSource is article that references PR from EV manufacturer? Not science.
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Fake History Porn@lemmy.world•Reddit's admins defending the upcoming API charges at an interview with the press (2023)
3·3 years agoThis is prime 00’s humor…
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Moving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social•I just found out that the people onboard the Titan submarine are dead. Is OceanGate in trouble?
6·3 years agoThis is the correct answer.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it pre-dated /r/gaming but those sentiments were probably shared in 4chan, so both may be pre-dated.
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General Discussion@lemmy.world•Lemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance!
5·3 years agoOver in kbin.social… wondering if there will be a simple way to consolidate duplicate magazines/communities
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•I know this has been done before, but here's a 1:1 scale 3D print of my actual brain. The hospital that did my MRI let me have the files.
3·3 years agoWow. It’s insane seeing the “you” next to you.




Now I want to go out and buy a bugle so I can perform at random funerals. ADHD is a hell of a drug.