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“Ultimately it increases entropy… let me tell you about the heat death of the universe…”
“No, Mom! I’m still afraid of the False Vacuum monster laying underneath my ground state!”
If those were likely to happen during our lifetime then they would have already. Now prion disease…
Good night!
Scare me with prion disease?
🎼
Elect-ro-weak and Higgs field
Staying in a false staaaate
Tun-nel, tun-nel, it alllll falls dowwwwwnThen there are no mass-es
And, more, no inter-act-ions
Mass-less, mass-less, no a-toms nowwwwI listened to this in my head, where did it go?
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So scientists are not entirely certain about the heat death of the universe. The heat death is the most reasonable prediction given what we know but there could be a force acting across the universe that may very slowly reverse the expansion of the universe that we have yet to discover and cause a big crunch over a ridiculously large amount of time. The fact is predictions that far in the future aren’t really very useful.
I read a SciFi book where there was a group in the world that does general science in the name of averting the heat death of the universe.
Ah yes, the ol’ “If a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound?” approach to preventing the death of the universe.
I don’t quite understand. Care to elaborate?
Existence is in the eye of the beholder. For something to exist it must be observed.
It sounds like in the book you read performing general science would go towards observing the universe preventing its heat death?
I dunno if fully applicable, but that’s what I got out of it :D
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked questions), now it’s time to find out.
Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
Until the day that even heat dies.
Well, heat just spread over a larger area but it doesn’t get destroyer nor turn into any other form of energy.
But it doesn’t die per se.
If you consider particle excitement to be the definition of heat and subparticle fields to be different forms of energy then it does actually change, but that’s just semantics.
If all discernable heat is unobservable and unobtainable, then semantics don’t matter. Everything still dies. I’d include “heat” in that mix, but that’s waxing philosophical
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
So where do smells go?
Just open a window. I’m sure they noticed, but they’ll be cool about it.
they get trapped in your nose hairs, this is why old people have really stinky noses.
Really? How can you smell?
well i’m not very old yet so i can smell many different ways depending on how recently i showered and whether i put on perfume
;) nah I was being doofily punny, like “how could you tell?”
You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.
As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
And slowly erodes it.
What?
Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
Where does the light go when you flip the switch?
Check your fridge.
It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.
I thought the sentence was going to lead to something like “It rolls up into the other 8 inaccessibly tiny dimensions of our space.”
I love your oldschool explanation though!
It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.
I’m not a scientist by a long shot, but my understanding is that sound if indeed a wave, carried by a medium (air, water, etc). Upon hitting your eardrum, this wave is converted by your eardrum and your auditory nerve into signals your brain decodes. The remainder of the wave continues though, until it runs out of medium, hits an obstacle (basically another medium) or dissipates. Again, just my layman’s understanding!
Don’t forget the inverse square law. Even without a change in medium or any obstacles, the strength of the signal decrease over distance until it is undetectable.
This is also why there are no extraterrestrial civilizations hearing any radio broadcasts from Earth. Our transmitters are so weak that any signals we send out fade into the CMB before they get any real distance.
So Lrrr and Ndnd warching Single Female Lawyer 1000 years in the future is a lie?
They would not have been able to watch it from an original OTA broadcast, no.
Unless they have an extensive network of wormhole repeateds
They’ve probably just got a spy satellite around earth that transmits back. Or maybe an extremely directional antenna / receiver dish would work, since they’re focused on Earth specifically.
You area conflating auditory waves with radio waves.
These are very much not the same thing. Sound waves require a medium while radio waves do not.
Radio waves travel vast distances through space while sound doesn’t travel at all.
Space is a medium, as exemplified by the fact that light curves around massive objects, because the space is curved.
Space isn’t a medium because mediums have privileged frames of reference.
You’re talking about spacetime which is a field, not a medium.
So you’re saying that light can travel through not-space?
Light is also not “stuff” - it’s electromagnetic radiation. It’s by the unprivileged intertial frame of reference that we define the speed of light. Light’s speed is the speed at which it travels unimpeded through the spacetime “field”. Additionally light does not accelerate or change speed in any way while traveling in that frame.
Unless you’re asking if light travels through things that are not the field known as the spacetime continuum in which case yes: light travels (and changes speed) through all sorts of materials. Like glass.
Don’t materials also need to exist in space?
If they didn’t fade with distance,
So for now we are still quiet in the dark forest.If we had FTL I’d be a radio archaeologist, flying out to various distances to attempt to capture lost episodes of old TV shows like Doctor Who
A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!
Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
So like can i get like a net and catch it? Like its my music i paid for so like i gotta keep it for safe keeping. Do i gotta go to another town and get it that way???
Lmao im joking Good explanation tho
But gets slower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
It goes into your memory. That’s why you can remember a song that you heard before.
It keeps traveling. If you splash some water, where does the wave go? Same question - it terms into something you can no longer see or hear… It never goes away. It becomes part of the world, forever
Music is what you hear - but it was only ever sound waves
Oh, dear child, it goes to the same place where you will go when you inevitably die one day: into complete non-existence, save for an echo in others’ minds, and after a while not even that.
Sweet dreams!
You just reminded me of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26469474
Warning: may cause big sad
It stays in our brain and we subconsciously put it into new music years later, thereby keeping the industry’s corporate lawyers in cocaine for future decades to come.
I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!
The best and the worst go straight to your brain and live there rent free.
Unfortunately, nobody has figured out how toget rid of the bad songs that drown out the good ones.
