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[-] potoo22@programming.dev 51 points 7 months ago

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

More like

Universe: exists

Scientists:

If you want to listen to smart people being SUPER excited about their favorite things, The Ologies Podcast cannot be recommended highly enough!

[-] AnalogousFortune@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Ologies is beautiful. As well as the entire Stuff You Should Know catalog, imo

[-] rem26_art@fedia.io 28 points 7 months ago
[-] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago

Due to some ancient meme I can only see this gif with MGS alert music in my head.

[-] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago

Yes, but the what in the goddamn fuck is spread through so many scientific fields.

Who: biology What: chemistry When: physics Where: geology, archeology Why? Philosophy

All these fields just because the universe exists. kind of beautiful if you ask me.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

One could argue that the purpose of life is self knowledge. As a part of the universe, we are driven to understand it. More recently, we know that self exploration through therapy resolves emotional traumas. Travel and exposure to other cultures tends to create compassion for them.

Γνῶθι σεαυτόν
Know Thyself

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 15 points 7 months ago

Thanks, you just threw me into a "what the fuck is existence and why does anything exist?" spiral.

[-] Ageroth@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

One of the things I've read about why things are the way they are is a comparison to probabilities, the thought is that similar to how there is one and only one way to roll a bunch of dice and have them come up all ones, there would be one and only one way for there to be "nothing" in the universe given the existence of any energy because of how many different ways energy can exist it's much more probable that you get a jumbled pile of all kinds of different things.
Now as for the question of "where did all this energy come from" you have to realize that even the vacuum of space contains energy of some level and the 'visible universe ' that is all of the matter that interacts with electromagnetic fields only accounts for a tiny fraction of the total energy we can detect so it's likely that the energies that make up our matter and universe came from "somewhere else" ... but then where did that energy come from and then it's turtles all the way down

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago

Pyramids exists. History channel: Aliens.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Just a perfect example of how business perverts the incentives and ruins everything

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah. Apparently that show has been going on for 18 seasons. 18 seasons of pseudoscience and shitty theories.

[-] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 6 points 7 months ago

Am science, can confirm

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.ca 4 points 7 months ago
[-] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago
[-] nekbardrun@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

HOW we fuck the are?

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