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    mclaincausey
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    Joined: 12 Apr 2013

    Here is Tegmark’s pop science article about multiverses: https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/multiverse_sciam.pdf

    Level 1: this is saying that the universe is likely to be large enough for a given configuration of particles in space to be infinitely replicated. So there would be an infinite number of copies of us, for example, across an unimaginably large swath of space and time. Anything that the laws of physics allows happens somewhere. Any possible configuration of particles within a given space happens somewhere. These would not be observable since they would be so far away and receding from us at over the speed of light—no signal could reach us. It is beyond our “cosmic horizon.“ while I think this is probable, it’s not testable and thus more philosophy than science, which is true of a lot of this. But there is reason to suspect it’s true.

    Level 2: the predominant theory for the formation of our universe is called cosmic inflation. This theory predicts that we are in one of a possibly infinite number of “bubbles” that form after a period of inconceivably rapid expansion of the universe. Each bubble would have its own physical constants and laws of physics. If there is an infinite number of them, eventually one identical to ours would be out there.

    Level 3: the most parsimonious explanation for the “weirdness” of quantum theory where a particle doesn’t have a position until it is observed is something called the universal wave function or the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, versus the Copenhagen interpretation which says the act of observation somehow collapses a waveform of probably locations into a single discrete location. This interpretation basically says that all locations are valid, and that the universe splits in along every valid location.

    Level 4 gets into simulation theory and that we’re living effectively in a vast computer.

    I think 1, 2, and 3 are probably true.

    Think it, be it.

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      SKT
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      Joined: 26 Aug 2019

      This is why we need the Time Variance Authority. 🤯

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        Nocturama
        Haraki san Prodigy
        Joined: 1 Jan 2023

        Me, pretending to understand this thread, whilst wishing I hadn’t rewatched The Matrix yesterday…

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        #JustStopCrocs

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          IrishHeart
          Haraki san Expert
          Joined: 1 Mar 2023

          I only popped on here to look at the jeans.

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            seawolf
            Mod Squad
            @Mizmazzle
            Joined: 28 Oct 2011

            @Mizmazzle This honestly made me nauseated for a second as my brain tried to comprehend.

            “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

            @zeebeeleather

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              seawolf
              Mod Squad
              Joined: 28 Oct 2011

              That's enough internet for today, friends! 🤣

              “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

              @zeebeeleather

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                Matt
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                Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                The beautiful irony of this is that it’s all an attempt at understanding something that our brains are not evolutionarily designed to understand. Humans are so obnoxious.

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                  Giles
                  IHUK Crew
                  Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                  Fuck off

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                    mclaincausey
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                    @Matt
                    Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                    Contemplating the infinite and how inconsequential we are on the cosmic scale can both “blow your mind” and lead to existential dread. For me it does the former but not the latter. If anything it just makes me more grateful to be here for what time I have. There’s a great documentary about infinity on Netflix that touches on that. Even though there will never be a way to be sure about the various multiverses, I have reasons to believe at least in the first 3 I won’t bore you with and believe the 4th is possible. None of it makes any functional difference in how I live my life.

                    @Matt what’s cool about it other than a natural desire to understand how it all came to be is that this kind of exploration can yield valuable outcomes. Without quantum mechanics, we wouldn’t have microprocessors or be talking right now, for example.

                    But also yeah, shag off ya tossers 😂

                    Think it, be it.

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                      Matt
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                      Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                      I’m somewhere in the middle. More like existential indifference.

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                        goosehd
                        Mod Squad
                        Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                        God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

                        "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                          weftyarn
                          Iron Heart Deity
                          Joined: 8 Nov 2020

                          One thing is for sure: If this is a simulation I want to thank whoever is playing me for discovering the IH part of the map. And so early too, great job!

                          Use it or lose it.

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                            weftyarn
                            Iron Heart Deity
                            Joined: 8 Nov 2020

                            went on a short city trip to Heidelberg and amongst many other great things I of course visited the Castle to discover this massive wine cask which absolutely blew my mind!

                            apparently a total of four versions were built, starting with the first in 1591 which was destroyed during the 30 years war to be used as fire wood

                            in the pictures you can see the fourth version built in 1751 which can hold 220.000 litres of wine. I should say COULD as it was never really water tight and was only filled completely three times.

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                            Use it or lose it.

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                              ARNC
                              啓蒙家
                              @weftyarn
                              Joined: 13 Dec 2020

                              @weftyarn almost enough for an IH party 😃

                              Also reminded me of this at Champagne Pommery (a memorable feature of my first tour of champagne houses when I was about 7). This one holds 75,000hl (equivalent to 100,000 bottles).
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                              “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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                              • WhiskeySandwichW
                                WhiskeySandwich
                                啓蒙家
                                Joined: 1 Mar 2023

                                Crazy....

                                https://www.space.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor-south-korea-runs-48-seconds

                                "The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
                                -Seneca

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                                • MizmazzleM
                                  Mizmazzle
                                  見習いボス
                                  @WhiskeySandwich
                                  Joined: 29 Jun 2021

                                  @WhiskeySandwich freaking nuts that it gets “many times hotter then the sun!!”

                                  In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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                                    mclaincausey
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                                    Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                    They’ve gone at least 250,000 x the temperature of the core of the sun in particle accelerators: 4 trillion degrees Celsius, enough to decompose subatomic particles. For context, a type 2 supernova (when a huge star runs out of hydrogen and collapses / explodes with unimaginable violence) is (only) 2 billion degrees and that’s enough to create the heavy elements that we and our world are made of.

                                    We really are made out of the remains of stars. Pretty cool.

                                    Think it, be it.

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                                      SKT
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                                      Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                                      I’d like to wander into one of these testing facilities and say “wonder what this button does?”

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                                        goosehd
                                        Mod Squad
                                        @mclaincausey
                                        Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                                        @mclaincausey …I do believe that some of us are more gaseous than others, especially after a night of drinking…

                                        "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                          mclaincausey
                                          見習いボス
                                          @goosehd
                                          Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                          @goosehd 🤣beer and cider man. I don’t understand the biology but I can feel the impact when I know it must still be in my stomach.

                                          Think it, be it.

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