Message from @Charlemagne

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2020-02-18 20:48:39 UTC  

Though the gnostics would say material existence itself is cruel and whatnot but I'm more life affirming than that

2020-02-18 20:49:56 UTC  

They also have other weird ideas about a monad and an imperfect monotheistic creator god which is cruel called the demiurge

2020-02-18 21:17:03 UTC  

i thought you were an atheist nessel, guess your a deist then

2020-02-18 21:43:08 UTC  

No

2020-02-18 21:43:39 UTC  

Technically a polytheist but I don't actively worship or make a big deal out of it

2020-02-18 21:44:56 UTC  

Deism would imply me buying into the prime mover argument, which I don't

2020-02-18 22:01:12 UTC  

I think a cyclical universe has been disproved

2020-02-18 22:01:26 UTC  

the universe will die a heat death before it reunifies through gravity

2020-02-18 22:03:51 UTC  

The expansion of the universe I think is something beyond what we can concieve

2020-02-18 22:03:57 UTC  

as it implies there is something beyond it

2020-02-18 23:10:53 UTC  

yeah but expansion might be fake and gay

2020-02-18 23:11:15 UTC  

just because it is expanding at an accelerating rate (allegedly) now doesn't mean that will always be true

2020-02-19 00:14:26 UTC  

There's a lot of uncertainty in it
There's many ppl who buy the expansion theory, others believe it'll shrink again and collapse, others with a big rip and all sorts of weirdness

2020-02-19 00:14:52 UTC  

I don't really believe a lot of the super-weird astrophysics stuff anymore

2020-02-19 00:15:28 UTC  

I could see the argument for expansion based on the observable distances etc. and background radiation

2020-02-19 00:16:02 UTC  

At a certain point it just becomes a masturbation of mathematicians

2020-02-19 00:16:16 UTC  

yeah well the thing is, we can't actually observe the expansion of space like that

2020-02-19 00:16:19 UTC  

it's way too slow

2020-02-19 00:16:25 UTC  

Because matter couldn't have moved faster than light so some expansion must've happened

2020-02-19 00:16:29 UTC  

it's inferred based on redshift in radio waves from the big bang

2020-02-19 00:16:39 UTC  

well we don't really know that you can't go FTL either

2020-02-19 00:17:16 UTC  

Well yes it's kind of the orthodox view though

2020-02-19 00:17:43 UTC  

it might be true now but may not have always been true

2020-02-19 00:17:56 UTC  

perhaps the speed of light can change as well

2020-02-19 00:18:04 UTC  

Whoa

2020-02-19 00:18:04 UTC  

Say FTL can happen and a lot of labcoats will ree autistically

2020-02-19 00:18:07 UTC  

maybe you cannot go faster than light, but maybe the speed of light is not always the same

2020-02-19 00:18:14 UTC  

Anybody follow the Dem primaries?

2020-02-19 00:18:20 UTC  

not really

2020-02-19 00:18:24 UTC  

I found a cursed meme about Amy Klobuchar

2020-02-19 00:18:27 UTC  

I saw the DNC cucked Bernie as expected

2020-02-19 00:18:28 UTC  

Light Speed is actually a bit of a wrong term

2020-02-19 00:18:29 UTC  

with booty judge

2020-02-19 00:18:40 UTC  

It's not just light moving this fast

2020-02-19 00:22:11 UTC  

what do you mean?

2020-02-19 00:24:01 UTC  

What on Earth?

2020-02-19 00:28:43 UTC  

Gravitational waves, electromagnetic radiation, massless particles etc.

2020-02-19 00:31:14 UTC  

It's seen as the maximum speed at which information/matter can travel
Only exception being the universe itself expanding faster than light

2020-02-19 00:32:41 UTC  

Which would imply us never being able to get to certain Stars which would get more distant even if we could travel speeds approaching that of light

2020-02-19 00:35:17 UTC  

Which is an important point about the Fermi paradox since it limits us and any potential neighbours to only this reachable region