/abs/ - Absurdism

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Nice try, Ἄτλας!

>>349
Uhh, I don't think that was Ἄτλας…

I always imagined Ἄτλας to be more of a juggler then a powerlifter, but maybe that's just me?

>>351
The narcissism of humans to believe the Earth is the center of the universe.
That's why egocentric and geocentric are anagrams!

>>352
But due to the universe expanding faster than light, it is the center of the observable universe to us. We can only see and reach the same distance in all directions. Anything outside of this sphere we are in the center of is effectively cut off from us.

>>353
>I must be the center of the universe, because I'm the center of what I can see!

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>>351
>>352
>tfw Ἄτλας turns out to be an 3.14 qt gril with mad circus skills and that's what makes the worlds go round

>>360
Not only see, but reach, or be impacted by. Everything in The Observable Universe(TM) has some infinitesimal gravitational effect on you. Everything outside of it might as well be another universe entirely. It has no interaction with us at all. Literally, nothing outside of our lightspeed bubble can be said to exist to us. In every way conceivable and inconceivable, the scenario in which things outside the bubble exist and the scenario in which they do not are identical.

>>362
>Everything in The Observable Universe(TM) has some infinitesimal gravitational effect on you.
Is that true for the whole universe, not only the observable one?
Also - if I were to move away from Earth wouldn't my and Earth's "bubbles" split eventually?
Don't forget that the Earth is flat and held up by the sexy Ἄτλας

Please support the Free Ἄτλας movement.

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This is the truth and you all know it. Nothing else makes sense.

>>365
he'd probably be standing on a mountain in the atlantic or in the americans somewhere, but ye

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>>365
This makes way more sense imo

>>363
>Is that true for the whole universe, not only the observable one?
Nope. Gravitation propagates at light speed too.
>Also - if I were to move away from Earth wouldn't my and Earth's "bubbles" split eventually? 
Sort of. You'd have to move faster than light to reach anything you can see from Earth at this moment. No matter how far away you move from Earth, it will never bring anything new into your lightspeed bubble.

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JUGGLING INTENSIFIES

>>362
I am aware, however, it's sill silly to equate "all that is" with "all that interacts with me in particular".

>In every way conceivable and inconceivable, the scenario in which things outside the bubble exist and the scenario in which they do not are identical.
This part is incorrect. As space has been expanding, much of the stuff currently outside our light cone used to be inside, and its existence in the past can have a causal effect on our present.
There's also no reason to assume that space won't start contracting in the future, which would mean that all the stuff currently outside our light cone would be brought back inside and begin to have causal interactions with us again, which would reunify our causal timelines. The presumption that stuff outside our light cone now has no causal relationship with us is not-even-wrong.

>>363
>Also - if I were to move away from Earth wouldn't my and Earth's "bubbles" split eventually?
If space were not expanding, no, because you cannot go faster than light.
Since space is expanding, yes, it will take a very very long time though.

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>>373
There's as much reason to assume that space won't start contracting in the future as there is to assume the Earth won't start orbiting backwards.

I will say this discussion assumes humanity will never achieve some sort of "FTL" travel.

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>>375
The answer isn't to speed ourselves up, but to slow light down.

>>375
>There's as much reason to assume that space won't start contracting in the future as there is to assume the Earth won't start orbiting backwards.
The solar system's orbits are chaotic on a timescale of about 3 million years, so yes, there is no reason to assume that the Earth will *always* orbit in the same way forever. In fact there is good reason to believe that it will eventually fall into the Sun or be ejected from the solar system. Your analogy is flawed.

>>377
Your criticism of it is also flawed. Neither falling into the sun nor escaping orbit will result in a reversal of orbital direction.

>>378
those are just two probable outcomes. All kinds of unforeseen anomalies could happen, some of which could reverse the Earth's orbit.

>>375
you're on an imageboard devoted to the goddess of strife and chaos… do you really think we're gonna believe that something is constant forever?

>>380
And it's chaoflux no less!
I don't know what i'll believe today…

>>374
Whoop whoop motherlover

>>377
>Earth
>be ejected from the solar system
I used to have these reocurring dreams where I was star gazing on a clear night under a new moon and suddenly the stars would streak and trail across the sky like a long exposure photograph, but in more chaotic patterns. The implication being that the planet was falling out of it's orbit and going for a ride. It was very terrifying and very beautiful.

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oops, forget pic-kid-of-related…

>>476
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Prosta
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braaaaaaiaiins

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>>376
I want to see this thesis elaborated upon. We've slowed light down to a crawl on earth before. How to extend this effect? Quick, call your local physicists for a consult.