• Moonworm [any]
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    9 days ago

    Old buildings like a church on the windswept seaside, a place just beside the edge of empire where everything may be about to unravel?

  • blunder [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    Do we think dark matter / energy are real? Or are our models just way off?

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      9 days ago

      Multiple independent observations lead to very solid evidence that dark matter exists. It’s a question of what comprises dark matter.

      I personally like the solution of primordial black holes. Recent evidence from LIGO/Virgo and the Webb telescope are strengthening the possibility that most if not all dark matter is PBH.

      This is a totally separate consideration from dark energy, though, just to be clear

    • Cutecity [he/him]
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      8 days ago

      My investigation of dialectics in science has led me to understand that the whole big bang thing is likely wrong and that space-time curvature as described was basically a thought experiment. It led me to then believe that black holes don't have singularities and don't exist below masses of around 3 solar masses. This is all supported by evidence, but I'd rather discuss this in DMs if you wanna know more. Stuff like the precession of mercury, the shape of spiral galaxy arms and dark matter/energy can be explained by fluctuations in the quantum field and electro magnetism in spinning stars, which as far as I know was kind of neglected in galaxy modeling since thoses effects are poorly understood.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 days ago

    Oh great, I get all the problems of a Doctor Who companion with none of the benefits. There's a primordial black hole in my building and I don't even get to visit a Celtic spa with weirdly modern morals. This sucks!

  • plinky [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    Small black holes are so pog, hope they are real inshallah-script

  • kristina [she/her]
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    8 days ago

    So my brain can be Swiss cheese cause of these right

    (If you’re worried about a primordial black hole passing through you, don’t be. The study concluded it would not be fatal.)

    PBHs would have much less mass than the stellar black holes later formed by dying stars, but they would still be extremely dense, like the mass of a mountain compacted into an area the size of an atom.

    Yeah but I doubt it'd be considered organic and healthy to have the matter of a mountain compressed to .1 nm and slicing through your brain at 4x the speed of sound. Sounds like a possible stroke or aneurysm at least. Really low possibility of it happening though