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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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[–] [email protected] 97 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Program is running out of memory.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

Source: Men in Black

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] PinkPanther 7 points 10 months ago

Correct. Don't forget to bring a towel!

[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So the galaxian filaments have surface tension?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's finally here - Physics 2

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

Electromagnetic Boogaloo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

could hint at new physics.

Nice a new update it's dropping.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

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

Well, shit

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is the big crunch back on the menu?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is that the one in a giant dorito?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cl1nk 2 points 10 months ago

God bless you 🙏

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Aliens. It’s always aliens.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Sounds pretty spooky.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

God has raised the interest rate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Prismo just stabilised the multiverse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

the spiders making the cosmic web are on strike duh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Jim, what are you doing

I am asking a question

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Shit, I knew I forgot about doing something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

“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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.