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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since the collapse would happen only at the speed of light, and the universe is so vast, it could have been happening for millions of years by now and the human race could still die by natural extinction before it gets anywhere near us. If the collapse originates from beyond the observable universe, it’d never reach us.

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

I think time is a dimension this shit is not restrained upon movement through the way we are. Mostly because it destroys the structure itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Space is emerging faster than it can transmit changes. This is why no light can reach us beyond the observable universe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Assuming that's actually how it really works and doesn't snap changes...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As stupid as that sounds, you are not totally wrong.

@[email protected] and @[email protected] you are misunderstanding what "observable universe" means. The observable universe is defined by the particle horizon, but the universe that can affect us in the future is defined by the event horizon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_horizon says

The particle horizon differs from the cosmic event horizon, in that the particle horizon represents the largest comoving distance from which light could have reached the observer by a specific time, while the cosmic event horizon is the largest comoving distance from which light emitted now can ever reach the observer in the future.

But even the cosmological event horizon distance is dependent on our model of the universe's expansion, which in turn depends on the content of the universe. An event such as a vacuum collapse will drastically alter the content and the expansion rate, rendering our calculation of the event horizon invalid. So "snap changes..." may in fact be the case.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Garfield, did you move a small region of the universe to a true vacuum state?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

What if the true vacuum state is just different enough for new physics, such that everyone gets psychic powers and nothing else changes.

Haters would say the real true vacuum state will take away my powers and I would psychically attack them for that view

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The neat thing is the collapse travels at the speed of light, so nobody will ever know what hit them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe it's already on the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Maybe it's arriving all the time but we don't notice because of quantum immortality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

We can only hope

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

It definitely is if anyone placed it on a high surface near a cat.

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

Isn't this what Schid's ladder is about? Great book btw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

adds it to the pile

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

They put so much heart into a character with barely any screen time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Favorite moment in the film.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is from Waterworld, right? Troublingly relatable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, it’s from Waterworld.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Oh I should rewatch. Last time I saw in the drive in.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Garfield don't disrupt the Gellar Field!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is an entire sub-genre in Comics of cartoons riffing on Garfield like this one. Nearly every cartoonist has done it and, oh my lord, it fills me with joy & reminds me why I actually love people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly Jim Davis has even said he likes and approves of such things. Wasn't there a Garfield minus Garfield book published at some point with his blessing?

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

ImSorryJon was popular too

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm sorry but I insist you call it by its full Christian name Englert–Brout–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble field

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

Ah, yes, the Engelbert Humperdinck field

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear. Fed kibble to dog and now dog in multiple planes of existence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

That's how it works in the Planescape universe. Lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That big goopy mess at the end was mostly just lasagna

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

You just made me snort diet Sprite.

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

whotookkarl: joke

lambalicious: rips a line of diet Sprite fuck yeah

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Scranton reality anchors be like

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

Obligatory "I'm sorry Jon"

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

Philosophy of the Street-poop lifestyle