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if the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light why can't we harness that power and travel that fast?
Put another way: Nothing can travel through space faster than light. But the expansion of space itself isn’t a form of travel, and so it’s not subject to this limitation.
* provided that we can't overcome speed of light limit
if the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light why can't we harness that power and travel that fast?
It's mind blowing to imagine that the observable universe is bigger than 90 billion light years, space-time expanding at multiple times the speed of light. If expansion keeps accelerating, then at some point gravity won't be able to keep the local cluster together and even those galaxies will drift away, then star systems, then planets, then matter itself will be torn apart until atoms and particles and quarks are de…
Imagine a brute-force creation of x^y universes with varying cosmological constants. Surely some universes with the right ingredients for life also include a deep freeze or a Big Crunch.
Or, maybe our universe was created in a lab somewhere and they’re trying to figure out how to make a stable universe through experimentation. And we’re iteration #42.
If this fact makes you uneasy just know that 100% of the universe's galaxies, except the one we are currently in, are already unreachable within your lifetime.
If this fact makes you uneasy just know that (nearly) 100% of the galaxy's solar systems except the one we're currently in are (likely) unreachable within your lifetime. Though to be fair, I think the original title can't possibly know this, for instance if we live in a simulation, what's to say that some sort of algorithm (assuming we learn to meta-code our own existence) could put us in any galaxy we choose... Or w…
If this fact makes you uneasy just know that 100% of the universe's galaxies, except the one we are currently in, are already unreachable within your lifetime.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
so there's an estimated 200 billion galaxies...still leaves us 12 billion.... I mean how greedy are we?
The last enemy to be defeated will be entropy
If this fact makes you uneasy just know that 100% of the universe's galaxies, except the one we are currently in, are already unreachable within your lifetime.
Since we can't ever reach most of the universe, that means we'll probably have to simulate it to ever explore it. Which means we're probably being simulated right now. Hm. Let's hope they left `sv_cheats` available.
If we're in a simulation...couldn't we learn to reprogram/hack the sim, and just put our spaceships in another galaxy?