Damn, I love seeing comments where people change their mind with more info.
I TOO thought it had to be malarkey, and then got existentially panicked, and then read the proposed theories about why and am less existentially aware. Universe is big, man, weird shit, and now it's kind of in a pizza dough shape? Wild.
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cmbabul@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 345d
You know someone once told me that time was a flat circle
Velypso@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 344d
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joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 345d
I think time is more of a torus.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 345d
I thought time was a cube?
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 344d
Somehow that feels like song lyrics to me ...
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey
marcos@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 345d
The Universe is locally flat.
And so is the Earth if you localize it enough.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 343d
When you localise it enough, earth is actually uphill.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 345d
Does that rule out worm holes or just wrapping back around if you go far enough
Klear@quokk.au · 4 pts · 345d
It rules out gravity...
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 345d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatness_problem
No, the best evidence we have today says the universe is flat.
It's a complicated topic, but Wikipedia sums it up pretty well.
Klear@quokk.au · 12 pts · 345d
Can't argue with that. Not like flat earthers think that mountains don't exist.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
Damn, I love seeing comments where people change their mind with more info.
I TOO thought it had to be malarkey, and then got existentially panicked, and then read the proposed theories about why and am less existentially aware. Universe is big, man, weird shit, and now it's kind of in a pizza dough shape? Wild.
rikudou@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 337d
Never believed in gravity anyway.
MBM@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 344d
Wrapping back around is still possible (that's the 3-torus universe)
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 345d
What about living in a black hole
callyral@pawb.social · 7 pts · 344d
you're telling me that parallel lines don't intersect, and angles in a triangle add up to 180°?
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 345d
Universe or galaxy?
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 345d
The galaxy is a sphere!
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 345d
Not ours. The milky way is a flat spiral. That's why it's a line in the sky (obviously the stars we see also belong to the milky way galaxy)
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 345d
Sheeple!
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 345d
I think this was a joke about flat earth?
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 345d
Sure, but I was the joke is to point to something that in fact is flat
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 344d
The universe is flat.
Most galaxies are semi-flat rotating discs of stars.
Only solid-ish objects like planets, stars, moons, and black holes are spheres.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 344d
You go up enough spacial dimensions and everything looks flat.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 344d
3D-flat as opposed to 2D-flat, or a bigger, crazier theory?
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 342d
It's just not carbonated.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 341d
Haha, and insert chest joke
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 344d
It seems awfully coincidental that, of all the curvatures out there, the universe should just end up having none.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 344d
It's flat, sure, except for all the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.