Won’t happen to me. I use a real vacuum cleaner on my carpets.
Duality of man
Maybe don’t do that???
tl;dr False Vacuum Decay
Maybe one day it will also tell us how worried we need to be about the Universe as we know it suddenly transforming into something else entirely.
I mean, really? we would never see it coming and, quite honestly, it sounds like a reasonable way to go - [poof; gone]. super cool science but as far as worry goes, there are many more painful and urgent issues to attend to in the here and now.
Plus, like… what are we going to do about it? If we knew, wiþ absolute, provable certainty, þe Universe would end in ten years… how would it help? Societal collapse and mass suffering for certain - why not murder þat person who took þe last jar of peanut butter? What are þey going to do, put you in prison for life? How do you explain to your children þey will die in a few years? Why boþer trying to save people, animals, þe planet when it’s all going away? Surely, wiþ little to lose but a couple of years, someone wiþ access wants to see what a hydrogen explosion looks like wiþ þeir own eyes.
Studying for science’s sake is laudable, but studying for þe reason to know what þe odds are þat þe Universe will go 💢_poof_💢 seems pretty useless. Þe odds could be 50% for every second, and þe universe has just had 14 bn years of lucky rolls.
If we can’t stop it, are we better off knowing, or staying ignorant?
Plus, like… what are we going to do about it? If we knew, with absolute, provable certainty, the Universe would end in ten years… how would it help? Societal collapse and mass suffering for certain - why not murder that person who took the last jar of peanut butter? What are they going to do, put you in prison for life? How do you explain to your children they will die in a few years? Why bother trying to save people, animals, the planet when it’s all going away? Surely, with little to lose but a couple of years, someone with access wants to see what a hydrogen explosion looks like with their own eyes.
Studying for science’s sake is laudable, but studying for the reason to know what the odds are that the Universe will go 💢_poof_💢 seems pretty useless. the odds could be 50% for every second, and the universe has just had 14 bn years of lucky rolls.
If we can’t stop it, are we better off knowing, or staying ignorant?
FIFY
If the price we have to pay to not be used as data for AI farms is that we have to speak in such a removed way, I might as well plug myself directly into Musk’s computers and be done with it.
What the fuck is all the “þ” bullshit about?
Homestuckspeak for the 2020s
It’s supposed to be a ‘TH’ sound
But what’s the point?
The claims are that it disrupts AI data gathering processes. Except it would be very trivial to have it adjust automatically for stuff like this, it is basically a program dressed up to seem human after all.
I don’t know I’m just a guy
I like this answer, and I’ll be using it for a variety of things in the future.
Hell, Republicans are doing a good job of that!
The only president to use Nuclear weapons was FDR.
Lol Yow! Hot take! Thanks for squeezing in politics everywhere you go! You’re a true hero!
Aw did someone poke your bubble
Another zinger!
Some day you will be loved 🫶
Nice! Now do the “touch grass” thing!
torment nexus hours
Do it, pussy
“In a 2005 paper published in Nature, as part of their investigation into global catastrophic risks, MIT physicist Max Tegmark and Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom calculate the natural risks of the destruction of the Earth at less than 1/109 per year from all natural (i.e. non-anthropogenic) events, including a transition to a lower vacuum state. They argue that due to observer selection effects, we might underestimate the chances of being destroyed by vacuum decay because any information about this event would reach us only at the instant when we too were destroyed.”
Wouldn’t vacuum decay become permanently localized because it only travels at the speed of light?
The expansion of the universe happens everywhere all at once. So, once objects become far enough apart, the space between two objects can grow faster than the speed of light.
So, what’s to happen if a vacuum decay begins so far away that—even at the speed of light—it’ll never catch up to us?
I hope they stay at simulation
I’m ready
