These are often termed “tired light” theories, and seem to have been observationally ruled out for the most part.
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Female characters in actually protective-looking armor? Madness!
What they need to do is make each pellet a multilayered jawbreaker of various metals, so that the meteors change colour as they fall.
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My first thought was that the Big Bang would take the title, but it turns out it was surprisingly mild, only about 120dB. oO
You’re still rolling the dice, there. Some species can encyst themselves and survive in some surprising conditions.
Oh, there’s definitely something wrong someplace with the numbers not matching up like that. It could be observational errors, it could be the current theoretical model is wrong. But to my knowledge there hasn’t been any evidence found for regional variation in the laws of physics.
Let’s get one thing straight: Entrapta is not a bad person. She only cares about the pursuit of knowledge, to the point where the people around her are only worth the data they provide.
The thing with this idea is that, if such regions existed within our observable universe, we’d likely be able to detect them by their effects on things like stellar evolution, absorption and emissions spectra, etc.
Phosphenes!
Stochastic terrorism at its finest.
I always dislike “free will” debates, because I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone reasonably define just what “free will” actually is.
Philosophy is kind of orthogonal to that chart, I guess.
The thing with the Big Bang expansion is that, effectively, the “origin point” is wherever an observer is located. Any location in the universe will measure the same sort of expansion, where distant objects are retreating from them with an apparent velocity proportional to their distance. Put another way, the Big Bang…
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It’s light, but not visible light. We see it with instruments. It is in fact the most distant light we can see.
I’m kind of hoping the next Democrat majority decides to stack the Supreme Court. The howls of outrage from the right would be delicious.
I still say they should’ve used a Dunkleosteus, so then they could’ve called the movie The Dunk.
Since Aliens, you mean.
“Relativistic mass” is kind of deprecated because, I think, particle physics folks like to consider mass an invariant (“rest mass”, ie. all observers will agree on the mass of a particle). So “relativistic mass” becomes “total energy”, which includes momentum, and is observer-dependent. The momentum contribution…