I took a physics course at a community college over 20 years ago and one of the things that stood out to me was the professor telling us not to overthink or assign too much romanticism to the idea of black holes.

His message was basically “it just means the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light… if you plug the size and mass of the universe into the escape velocity formula, the result you get back is greater than the speed of light, so our entire universe is a black hole.”

If this was being discussed at a community college decades ago then I think the new discoveries aren’t as revelatory as they would at first appear to the general public.

Okay, so now you can barely afford your rent inside a black hole. Enjoy the enhanced granularity of your desperation!

I can barely afford rent!

Well... the good news is you can stretch your income a bit further with spaghettification!

paying rent sometimes feels like throwing money into a black hole

What if we're not in a black hole, but in the aftermath of a vacuum decay event?

Tax breaks for the rich is the only solution

Ok I've been meaning to ask this in the Space community or the NoStupidQuestions community. I've seen this news circling around the past 2 weeks and have been watching videos of people talking about it.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think the gist is that astronomers discovered with the JWST that some galaxies at the end of the observable universe appear to be younger than they are supposed to be. So it kinda blows a hole in the big bang expansion where objects farther away should be older. And that somehow ties in with the theory that our universe is inside a blackhole.

It's fascinating but I don't know what to do with that information other than just be fascinated. I think it was Neil deGrasse Tyson who said "So what does this new discovery matter to us? Nothing", because us being in a blackhole doesn't change anything in the grand universal scheme of things.

NOT "discovered inside black hole", just gained further theoretical evidence for the Earth being in a less dense area of the universe. There has been actual evidence of such for some time (at least a decade), but there is uncertainty at such large scales so it cannot be called conclusive based only on a couple types of observation that may have erroneous procedures.

We should all be celebrating our good fortune, protection against a dark forest strike!

Both are fair and valid.

Peaceful science & good housing should go hand in hand.

Anyone got a link to either nasa or a good article explaining it?

I mean, we can talk about it for a bit, Angie, if it’d make you feel better, but that’s really about it, honestly.

Don't get me wrong, understanding the nature of the universe is valuable and noteworthy. But how would that information meaningfully impact anyone's life or change their behavior or worldview beyond a general awe at the unfathomable mysteries we already have towards space as we've understood it for centuries? Especially in a way that would ne noticeable to this person. Am I meant to stare up at the sky from 8:15 to 8:30 every other night with my mouth agap while I try to wrap my mind around the spacetime bubble we all exist on the surface of? Or can I just eat dinner?

Considering NASA could be canceled by an ass hole, I think we have other problems.

You better start believing in compression systems you're in one

May be that's why it sucks to live here.. It's related

Man I really wish we had super fast space travel like star wars...