Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth, Scientists Say

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3q5j/something-mysterious-appears-to-be-suppressing-the-universes-growth-scientists-say

Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth, Scientists Say::The unexplained cause of the slowed growth of the cosmic web that connects galaxies could hint at new physics.

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Beardwin@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Program is running out of memory.

spacecadet@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Heap memory specifically.

railsdev@programming.dev · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y

He needs to tune down that garbage collection

Coasting0942@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If we expand anymore we’ll pop the neutron that contains the universe.

Source: Men in Black

MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 1 pts · 2y
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cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Does the universe—err, HAVE memory via conservation of mass or sumfing?

DrDeadCrash@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

42?

PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y

Correct. Don't forget to bring a towel!

theghostoutside_@aussie.zone · 73 pts · 2y (2 replies)

For everyone talking about the expansion of the Universe, that's not what this is about. The Universe is still expanding, at an accelerating rate. This work is about the rate of structure formation (the large-scale clumpiness of matter) being slowed down, not the expansion of spacetime.

bstix@feddit.dk · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

So the galaxian filaments have surface tension?

RedAggroBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

If I'm thinking of this right, yes, and it's like they have less than we thought and aren't splitting up into "droplets" (clusters of galaxies) as fast as we think they should be.

Marketsupreme@lemm.ee · 59 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's finally here - Physics 2

nul@programming.dev · 38 pts · 2y

Electromagnetic Boogaloo

dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Well you heard of quatinions now get ready for 3D quatinions!

angrystego@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y

I hate this kind of titles that try hard to make science sound esoteric. Science is exciting enough by itself!

XTornado@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 2y (2 replies)

could hint at new physics.

Nice a new update it's dropping.

GoosLife@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

"Patch notes: fixed weird bug slowing down the expansion of the universe; heat death now correctly occurs in 2025"

Well, shit

June@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y

Forest new math.

Now the woke fuckers are bringing new physics?!

When will the insanity end???

Nighed@sffa.community · 20 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Is the big crunch back on the menu?

totallynotarobot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Is that the one in a giant dorito?

Wogi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

It's an off brand great value nacho corn chip but basically the same yeah

spaduf@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)
Cl1nk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

God bless you 🙏

LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 2y

It noticed humans and said ‘whoa whoa whoa, that’s not at all what we meant’.

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Aliens. It’s always aliens.

witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Sounds pretty spooky.

slowroll@r.nf · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

its time to upgrade RAM

Agent641@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

This is a render distance issue, the bottleneck is clearly GPU

3TH4Li4@feddit.ch · 0 pts · 2y
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clearleaf@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

God has raised the interest rate

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

Prismo just stabilised the multiverse.

bappity@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

the spiders making the cosmic web are on strike duh

BustinJiber@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

I'm sorry, this totally was not my intention.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

It's on a bit of a diet, seems to be working, good for the universe

rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

What does... God... need... with a starship?

Wogi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Jim, what are you doing

gian@lemmy.grys.it · 4 pts · 2y

Jim, what are you doing

I am asking a question

gian@lemmy.grys.it · 1 pts · 2y
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XTornado@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y

Shit, I knew I forgot about doing something.

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Because the entire universe is inside a black hole and what we percieve as expansion is acceleration to a singularity?

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/graph-measures-objects-universe-black-hole/

Brainsploosh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

“The plot suggests that if there were nothing – a complete vacuum – beyond the observable universe, our Universe would be a large, low density black hole. This is a little scary, but we have good reason to believe that’s not the case,” Patel added."

Your source refutes your claim.

linearchaos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The current unbiased status of the universe is in a black hole theory is that it is possible, The math could work*, but we don't have any good reasons to actually believe it is actually the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRgFqbBM5E

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I just found this fascinating:

"In other words, if a black hole was as large as the universe we can see, it would have the same density as the universe."

The idea that we could be inside a black hole and just not know it is mind boggling.

"Lineweaver notes there is an event horizon around the observable universe, just as there is around a black hole, and this is just one of the parallels between them."

linearchaos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

There are a bunch of parallels, but a number of those parallels are still theoretical. If this exists then it would look like that If this works like that then it would also seem like this.

The strongest statement we can make about it is there's currently no concrete evidence that it's not what's happening.

It's a great thought experiment, but it's a pretty bold jump to go from we don't see any reason this can't be true to announcing that It's the defacto case.

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Yearly1845@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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lolcatnip@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

That would imply the universe has a center. There's no evidence of that.

Yearly1845@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 2y
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RedAggroBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Technically the "center" that they're referring to would be the unknowable edge of the universe, which we know must exist ist just more like a point in time rather than space itself as we perceive it. We're both speeding towards it and infinitely pushing it away until gravity wins and the inertia of the big bang is cancelled out.

MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 1 pts · 2y
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iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

It is the weekend for whoever is running the universe experiment so they went home. Just wait a couple more gazillion years and they will be back adding more stuff to the mix.

just_another_person@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 2y
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korewa@reddthat.com · -7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The universe is a giant black hole that’s why it’s slowing down

TheYear2525@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Congrats on your Nobel prize!

Robaque@feddit.it · 2 pts · 2y

Wait did they just solve science or smthn?