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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
I always liked the books, I don't even know or care if they're reactionary, they're just nice dumb entertainment lol
It always struck me as more jestfully misanthropic than outright reactionary. Very strong "Humanity is a comically dumb civilization in a galaxy filled with comically dumb civilizations" energy. It's not over the top though. If anything, it is very cynically liberal.
I enjoyed the series quite a bit.
I just recently came to recognize the unbearable British smugness of the series, but I still reluctantly like it anyway
it does make fun of capitalism though. there is a civilisation that was destroyed because they just kept making shoes because it was the only profitable thing to do for some reason.
What are you talking about its totally good practice to make a scientist's jokey remark the title of the article, and of course you also have to shoe-horn in a reference to Star Trek to keep the hogs interested.
It's so annoying because it makes people who don't know much about science read these articles and think that physics is about being stoned with your friends and coming up with Jaden Smith type quotes.
That or dumb priests and creationists take the quotes and say "see this? Scientists say the universe shouldn't exist! THAT MEANS EVERYTHING IN THE BIBLE IS TRUE SOMEHOW!".
For a second there I read that as "University shouldn't exist" like this scientist was advocating for un-schooling
Honestly, same. I was kinda disappointed. But it's cool that the "how is there any unannihilated matter?" still needs more research. Imagine living in a universe with no mysteries left - that sounds hellish.
Imagine living in a universe with no mysteries left - that sounds hellish.
Yah know people say that, but maybe I’m just a bore but I don’t exactly fancy myself some big epic explorer, I’m a pretty chill guy.
If the answer to life, the universe and everything was found tomorrow I assume I could still drink beer and watch anime and go for bike rides and other shit I like doing. I don’t think the existential dread of scientists being bored would bother me personally that much. As for the scientists, idk maybe take up home brewing or some shit?
CERN Physicists: "Universe shouldn't exist."
Capitalists: "We're working on it."
It's a hyperbolic extrapolation from "The standard model of physics cannot fully explain the origin of matter."
I think it's relatively harmless in this case. Hell, it's what got me to click on it in the first place.
Yeh no shit isn’t it kinda obvious this whole thing is a prank gone wrong
I’m waiting for us to dig deep enough and uncover some kind of like secret Boson or something that basically spells out “lol gotcha” from the 10-dimensional alien developers of our universe
It was an enemy in Commander Keen , and for some reason it became a gamedev meme to hide "Dopefish lives!" or pictures of it as an easter egg
"After creating the antiprotons in 2015, the team were able to store them for more than a year inside a special chamber about the size and shape of a can of Pringles."
they didn't want to admit it, but they just popped the antimatter into a can of Pringles they had lying around
