Message from @Dasick
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I'll talk physics another time
I'm pretty iffy on a lot of stuff in physics, especially particle and theoretical physics because I don't know how much of it has been empirically supported at all
for all I know we're extrapolating theories upon extrapolated theories of made up bullshit that only ever existed on paper because the math made sense
I want to practice a healthy degree of skepticism
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As always
Black holes still are mathematics
We have indirectly observed one
We have inderectly observed a blob of pixels doing.... something
either way, i'm no expert on the subject but one shouldn't really concern himself with theoretical scientists
smug cunts
This is all too far away and too low res to comment on
you can say theoretical physicists are just writing a secular Talmud
Its like those articles about finding planets around other stars!
ikr
All we really know. Is that there is something massive as fuck at the center of our galaxy, that we can't see.
And whats the evidence?
Well, the star kinda blinks at regularish intervals
and le epic science people go <:soy:515271052071534592>
Mathematically we know something is there.
I'll say that observing the wobble of a star, the period of its blinking and the degree to which it does so can indicate the presence of large planets
I see nothing wrong with that
I have a problem with "artist's renditions" depicting what that planet looks like
Its really too far away to tell
And Dasick, they estimate the size of exoplanets by monitoring light output over years. It's not really something we can know for sure because they are ao far away and the light difference is so little. But once you see a large about of data, stars dimming at very exact intervals... you can infer that there is something there.
niggas really be out here guessing what a planet looks like when we can't even precisely pin down its diameter, mass, or orbit
Thats what I said Worf
they determine it's composition based on the hue of the reflection
You said the stars blink. That implies it blocks out all light
since different atmospheres give away different hues
gotta remember that we sit on a really shitty vantage point in our galaxy, and we only have the one
It doesn't, it dims very very very slightly.
we can't see much from here
I really don't like the 'epic space science' people
that shit is the most irritating
"space big yo"
then again I don't like anyone
Yes, space is big. It's also fascinating. But people put far too much stock in science that we can't physically prove.
there's a tasteful way to engage with space
and then there are people who run around proclaiming shit they heard once as absolute fact
yes, STEM
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