alcubierre drives are (theoretically) a thing. wormholes are also a (theoretical) thing.
we could just bend space.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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sure! give me a couple hundred years.
You know, if you could use one of them wormhole thingies, you could already be there!
Checkmate!
look, give me a couple of centuries alright. its complicated.
just a couple of centuries bro, please bro i swear just a couple of centuries bro.
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There's a bit of skipped step here. Just how do you get to the speed of light when it requires an infinite amount of fuel, with diminishing returns on the quantity of fuel you have?
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It really is a cruel joke.
99% of the universe is nothing. Wouldn't that really be the dick move?
The universe is basically 100% empty. An atom is more than 99.9999999 empty space.
Say that again when a brick made of 99,9999999% empty space hits you!
(Mustn't be a hard hit, maybe more like a soft touch. For science, you know.)
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wow. never thought of this in that way.
Yeah, I rounded down.
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Wait, now that I think about it, the observable universe have precisely that length because the speed of light, doesn't it?
Its a combination of the speed of light and how inflation has varied the size of the universe. Light's only been able to travel about 14 billion light years since the universe began but those further regions used to be closer so light from them was already part of the way here when they vanished over the cosmic horizon.
Where's the proof that a god even exists? Except for the Planck time, physicists have all but explained how everything got here.
Is Planck time even proof of anything let alone god? I mean, even if some glowing entity descended from the clouds and declared, “Behold, I am God,” would that actually convince anyone? We’d just have another person claiming to be god -- which, let’s be honest, is not exactly a rare event on this planet.
What even counts as sufficient proof of God? A signed affidavit? A peer-reviewed miracle?A TED Talk with miracles? The whole “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” thing kind of ruins the whole premise. Realistically, we’ll never have proof. At best, we can conclude that proof of God is permanently out of reach.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. I am God.
At best, we can conclude that proof of God is permanently out of reach
Exactly. Unprovable sounds like a definition for something that doesn't exist.
Here I am
I can't disprove you're god, so you must be!
If the universe is infinite in size it is a statistical requirement for a god, or a being that has ability we would consider to be godlike, must exist somewhere.
Where did you come up with that nonsense?
It’s a joke bruh. Relax.
And I’ll just say too that science has explained many things, sure. But to say it’s explained “how everything got here” is so far from the truth I’m not even going to try and argue here.
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god didn't invent km's ; satan did
Common trick map builders do, if you need to teleport the player for a scene e.g. they're in a dream, but you dont want to load a whole new map you put the scene in the main map but someplace it cant be seen and is unreachable.
I love map breaking. It's also fun to see what developers didn't use.
And to add the cherry on top, should you ever reach his arbitrary speed limit, it distorts time itself. Even if you flew through space at c for a little weekend getaway, you'd return to a now foreign world only to find time had skipped forward +2,000 years, your entire family and social circles long dead from old age with societal and technical advancements beyond what you could have ever thought possible, completely isolating you. You're now doomed to live in an unfamiliar world where not a single human speaks your language nor can they relate to you in any meaning way.
AKA, gods speeding ticket.
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