Battlestar Galactica - Season 2 Episode 8 - Patreon Version
Added 2025-03-23 13:00:16 +0000 UTC
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I was learning more about Black Holes, and I loved how one physicist put it. I am paraphrasing, but he said; "Once you cross the Event Horizon your future leads inevitably towards the singularity of the black hole. There are no other possible futures. You are headed towards the singularity. It is sort of like time, in that no matter what, you are headed towards tomorrow. There is nothing you can do about it, that's where you are going." It makes you wonder more about the connection between black holes and time.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2025-03-24 19:03:39 +0000 UTCI am very fascinated with this stuff. I am a fan of learning all about the Fermi paradox specifically and how cool and terrifying it can be. Myself a couple others do deep sky astrophotography in the summer. Yeah everything you mentioned is all stuff I love learning about. Time is just relative to our location in the universe. Elsware it bends and squeezes to be faster or slower depending on the size of objects around. Gravity and time go hand in hand. Time can speed up but never go backwards.
Thats MR. Baldamort
2025-03-24 18:53:28 +0000 UTCGiven that this show is a sci-fi series that takes place in space, I have to ask if the fans of this show have seen the recent developments and discoveries made by the James Webb telescope? Anyone interested in Cosmology? This is one of the subjects that I cannot learn enough about, and recent observations using the JWT have called into question the role that Dark Energy has in the expansion of the Universe. This is huge, and may rewrite so much of what we thought we knew about the Universe. The observations that JWT has made are those of galaxies that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Remember, the further away these galaxies are from us, the older they are. Light has a speed limit, so the further away something is from us means that light from it took even longer to reach us. Therefore if we look far enough away, we are witnessing the early Universe in "real time", as it looked and acted over 10 billion years ago. Just as we see the Sun outside right now, we are looking at the Sun as it was 8 minutes ago, as that's how long light took to leave the Sun and travel to our eyes. The Sun is actually 8 minutes older that the Sun we see with our eyes. As we look at a galaxy that is 10 billion light years away, we are watching it as it was 10 billion years ago. Anyways, what we have found from the JWT is that some of these distant galaxies are FAR BIGGER than they should be in the early Universe. It takes time for galaxies to form, form into the spiral shape that many are found in, to have a specific rotation, etc. It was baffling to scientists to see so many of these distant "young" galaxies be so large and already having the shape and spin that they do. It should have taken them much longer to form in this way, and these galaxies are being seen "shortly" after the Big Bang. In other words, they shouldn't be there. But they are. This is lending more credibility to the hypothesis known as "Timescape" which suggests that the entire Universe is not operating under the same time scale. Different parts of the Universe are passing through time at different speeds. This means that there is an illusion of time that we are seeing in space. The more present gravity is, the slower time moves. The hypothesis is that in space there are gargantuan areas of empty space in which time may be passing 3 times as fast as it is within galaxies. This could create an illusion that we have been duped by into thinking Dark Energy was causing the rate of expansion of the Universe. It may just be an illusion that time itself has presented to us. Anyways, if anyone here is as fascinated by this stuff as I am, check it out. We could be on the verge of a new scientific revolution in Cosmology, much like the one Einstein created with this Theories.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2025-03-24 15:06:09 +0000 UTCLoved watching your eyes pop at the end. Great reaction, Dasha. That reporter was Lucy Lawless, an actress famous for playing 'Xena: Warrior Princess'. Her accent is Kiwi, from New Zealand.
Mark Rude
2025-03-24 01:11:36 +0000 UTCI'm loving these reactions! Thank you!
Thomas
2025-03-23 22:33:14 +0000 UTC
