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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

"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"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I couldn’t have designed it better.

Delta Force game programmers: Ghm, that was a trivial solution to the problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So... is Rick the top God or are there infinite simulations?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just along the Central Finite Curve.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Earth is already stranger than some would like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

And that is scary. If the is one takeaway from observing the universe it's that there are always bigger and stranger things out there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A bit off-topic but the voids in the universe (such as Bootes void) are scary af.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could never get to the void because space-time has already accelerated the edge of all matter away from you faster than the speed of light.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not "the void," no, but "a void," yes. As the universe continues to expand faster than the speed of light, the stars outside of our galaxy will slowly disappear from view. There will come a time when the night sky is just the milky way and darkness elsewhere. I don't know if anything will still be around to observe it, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I thought it was technically a three-dimensional donut shape progressing along a sort of 4D torus that we only exist on the "surface" of?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

That's a common misconception. We actually live on the surface of a 3D bear claw progressing along a 4D cruller.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's actually turtles all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It does sort of feel like we're in the butthole of universes, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Hey I hear there’s a nice restaurant out there