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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #70980 on: 03/09/2025 13:31:38 »
But they are breaking down, aren't they?

Those plasters and that 'equality'.


Ever wondered why?
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #70981 on: 03/09/2025 13:33:47 »
Same way your basics are disappearing
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #70982 on: 03/09/2025 13:39:39 »
Let's call it a IQ test.

Why do they disappear
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #70983 on: 03/09/2025 13:40:24 »
Wrong answer

over population is just a symptom
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #70984 on: 03/09/2025 20:53:07 »
Capitalism?

just a symptom
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #70985 on: 03/09/2025 21:20:45 »
Nevermind. Black hole and physics.

Following relativity we exist in a four dimensional 'spacetime' manifold.  Width, length, height and time. And suddenly I realized that I wasn't sure what a black hole describes.

Mass 'bends' SpaceTime, right?

Passing the event horizon there is no way back and the direction, if one can talk about such inside it, for a 'photon' must be 'finite'.

So, presented with a infinite mass, what happens to the three dimensional room inside that event horizon, and time?

From an outside observer that event horizon exists inside our SpaceTime manifold, aka our universe, and with them different densities defining differently sized event horizons and black holes, as observed by their outside.

But inside?

Why do they even stay? Those event horizons? It reminds me more of scarring of our SpaceTime than anything else I can come up with?

Because they all are singularities, something that 'broke down' into 'something / nothing' we can't, and won't, know without passing it ourselves. The only thing we have, the scar.

It's definitely weird

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4ckbyc/are_all_black_holes_the_same_density/
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« Reply #70986 on: 03/09/2025 21:29:01 »
Then again, assuming it must be 'finite' places the singularity wholly inside our SpaceTime, So, if that photon doesn't have a finite geodesic ending in something?
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« Reply #70987 on: 03/09/2025 21:40:28 »
We have the effects from it though, mass / densities, and the way other celestial objects are forced to dance around it. But it made me think of photon recoils, and physical laws.
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« Reply #70988 on: 03/09/2025 21:46:15 »
Namely conservation laws and symmetries

https://www.physicssayswhat.com/2017/04/03/symmetry-%E2%86%92-conservation-laws/
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« Reply #70989 on: 03/09/2025 22:03:22 »
You can try this one too

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-noethers-theorem-revolutionized-physics-20250207/
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« Reply #70990 on: 03/09/2025 22:09:25 »
It's not magical, at least I don't think it to be, those are just laws that our universe seems to build from. There's a logic to them, even though things like singularities, the Big Bang, Black holes, etc is something we have no real description of, except accepting them.
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« Reply #70991 on: 03/09/2025 22:11:52 »
Magic, to me, are when logic's disappear. No longer found, nor needed
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« Reply #70992 on: 03/09/2025 22:12:57 »
Maybe I should have wrote understanding instead of description.
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« Reply #70993 on: 04/09/2025 09:28:02 »
This one is funny in so many ways

"The study found that conservatives underestimated national support for climate policies to the greatest degree but, liberals also believed that a minority of Americans support climate action. The misperception was the norm in every state, across policies, and among every demographic tested, including political affiliation, race, media consumption habits, and rural vs. suburban."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220823123556.htm
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« Reply #70994 on: 04/09/2025 09:30:31 »
Either it is correct, from what it then states about American politicians and their disconnection then giving them a new bottom prize, or it isn't.

And do you see people reacting?
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« Reply #70995 on: 04/09/2025 09:33:52 »
No, I think it's too simple to cover it. Everyone wants something to be done. If you're one of those living in a scifi being a defender you will look to scifi solutions, geoengineerings, 'new tech' etc. If you're not you will search for other solutions, but none of you will be ready to sacrifice your own living standards for it.
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« Reply #70996 on: 04/09/2025 09:35:45 »
The simplest approach to what we're coming into, a 1.5C regime is this.

We can't go back without geoengineerings.

So are you Jules Verne?
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« Reply #70997 on: 04/09/2025 09:39:06 »
1.5C means that we already geoengineered our earth system, without knowing and without any visible regrets, except running our mouths, looking for blame games.
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« Reply #70998 on: 04/09/2025 09:42:26 »
Where things like this places you in the scifi corner

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250902085150.htm
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« Reply #70999 on: 04/09/2025 09:44:24 »
So people accept their decision makers decisions, no matter surveys. And no matter if it throws us into more meaningless wars.
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