History channel after 12 AM

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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 263d

The Big Bang theory isn't about the bang itself but about what happened after the bang. Not long after, mind you. By doing a lot of math and watching carefully what goes on in particle accelerators, scientists believe they can look back to 10-43 seconds after the moment of creation, when the universe was still so small that you would have needed a microscope to find it. We mustn't swoon over every extraordinary number that comes before us, but it is perhaps worth latching on to one from time to time just to be reminded of their ungraspable and amazing breadth. Thus 10-43 is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001, or one 10 million trillion trillion trillionths of a second.

Most of what we know, or believe we know, about the early moments of the universe is thanks to an idea called inflation theory first propounded in 1979 by a junior particle physicist, then at Stanford, now at MIT, named Alan Guth.

The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion. It inflated -- in effect ran away with itself, doubling in size every 10-34 seconds. The whole episode may have lasted no more than 10-30 seconds -- that's one million million million million millionths of a second -- but it changed the universe from something you could hold in your hand to something at least 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times bigger. Inflation theory explains the ripples and eddies that make our universe possible. Without it, there would be no clumps of matter and thus no stars, just drifting gas and everlasting darkness.

Bruh.

*Crunches chip, loads bong*

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 263d (2 replies)

But it's always after 12AM

Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 263d

Unless it's before 12am... which it is, also always.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 263d

Is 12AM after 12AM?

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 263d (4 replies)

Hear me out when the history channel stopped showing actual historical documentaries and started with all this alien bible bs back in the early 2000s that’s when the world went to shit. Boomers should be ww2, Great Depression, guilded age, civil rights movement, civil war and Vietnam era experts like the silent generation was instead this complete bilge brainwashed them into being morons that know nothing about anything except made up garbage and now they all vote for dumb shit

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 263d

early 2000s

Nothing good happened in that time period:

  • .com crash and the lost decade
  • 9/11 and the TSA/Patriot Act nonsense that followed
  • Bush, and the start of Iraq and Afghanistan wars
  • Dreamcast discontinued, and Sega drops out of the console market (duopoly ensues)

And of course History, Discovery, etc turning to utter crap.

BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 263d (2 replies)

They switched off the educational content on Discovery, History channel, TLC, Animal planet, around 2000

0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 263d

BBC Earth was good until about few years ago. Then it all went to reality channel shit show.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 263d

Yes agreed this is when things started getting really bad and Trump had that stupid game show

Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 263d

What happens on the History Channel should stay on the History Channel.

SnekZone@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 263d

Evolution? Nah, back-pain theory is in now!

theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 263d

History channel after 12 pm tbh

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 263d

thats what the "species" movies are for, the same writer/showrunner for aliens franchise.

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 263d