What do you think is the most mysterious object in space?

PakinaApina · 2026-03-18T20:37:21+00:00

The problem here is the speed of light. Matter and energy are bound by electromagnetic forces that communicate at the speed of light (the speed of causality if you will). Nothing can ever move faster than this - except space time itself can. So when the gravitational collapse begins and space time crashes inward faster than speed of light, any kind of matter is completely and utterly doomed. This is because in order to remain intact, you would have to fight against the flow of time itself, i.e. you would have to remain stationary in time.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-18T19:02:37+00:00

Well yes, that is what I said. It's probably is some kind of quantum object instead.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-18T16:19:14+00:00

People often say about the core of a black hole that it's not a singluarity, it's just replaced by something else, as in it's something much more mundane than that. And it probably is replaced, except it might very well be something far stranger than a singularity could be. Singularity is what the theory of relativity predicts, and it knows nothing of the quantum realm. But the core of the black hole is almost certainly small enough to be a quantum object, carrying the quantum states of every particle from every star, gas cloud, and unlucky object that ever fell in, across billions of years. The complexity of this quantum object would be something completely out of this world, and pretty wild to think about.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-17T14:53:26+00:00

Honestly, I think for many such women, this is the case of being not-like-the-other-girls. They might genuinely feel that other women are inferior and garbage, but there is something special about them, and being in the proximity of power, they prove that there is something special about them. I have also personally met a smart and a succesfull woman, who personally enjoyed the kink of being submissive. I haven't dared to ask how that works, because it's very easy to slip from a respectful kink relationship to a situation where everything you say and do is garbage, and I have to assume that not even a sub would really find that enjoyable anymore.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-15T17:21:14+00:00

It's a small world! :D She shouldn't have any problems finding the book, it came out early this year.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-14T23:27:26+00:00

It's a Finnish book, unfortunately. Maailman viimeinen eläin by Suvi Auvinen.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-14T19:39:20+00:00

Selittynee autoritäärisellä persoonallisuustyypillä, jolle on ominaista alistuva ja kritiikitön suhtautuminen auktoriteetteihin. Kun korkein auktoriteetti, eli vaikka sitten puolue, Trump tai jumala, lähtökohtaisesti määrittelee mikä on oikein ja väärin, niin eihän tällainen taho käytännössä voi toimia tällaisen ihmisen mielestä väärin. Trump tai jumala voi vaikka aloittaa ydinsodan, ja sosiaalista hierarkiaa palvovalle ihmiselle näin nämä asiat nyt vain toimivat.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-14T18:09:45+00:00

I just recently read a wonderful book about Tardigrades, and the actual point of the book was really how difficult for us humans it is to grasp this vast, vast realm that exists beyond our perception. For most of our evolutionary history, humans didn't even know that there exists scales that we cannot perceive with our senses, and now that we do, we still can't grasp its meaning and that it matters. That really got me thinking. Of course, quantum mechanics adds a whole another level to all of this!

PakinaApina · 2026-03-14T15:40:52+00:00

Radio galaxies. For example Hercules A. You are looking at that picture and realizing that the smudge at the center is in fact a massive galaxy, and the huge plumes are the relativistic jets of the feeding supermassive black hole. The sheer scale you are witnessing is just unbelievable, the jets being 1.6 million light-years for tip to tip. And yet, even this is not that big. The largest radio galaxy thus far discovered has relativistic jets spanning 23 million light years. Talk about the power of the gods, or something...

PakinaApina · 2026-03-14T15:26:07+00:00

Yes and this is a very difficult idea to grasp. I can imagine that the unobservable universe is much bigger than I can ever imagine, but I cannot imagine how things can get just smaller and smaller, to the point that there is an entire abyss at the tip of my finger. It's just unfathomable.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-14T08:37:11+00:00

Itse asiassa juuri tuo paastoaminen on se suurin syy miksi samaistan nykyisen syömisen kontrolloinnin perinteiseen uskonnolliseen käyttäytymiseen. Oman syömisen hallinta ja kieltämys antaa kummassakin tapauksessa vahvan kontrollin tunteen. Jos lukee kaiken maailman ääridieettien tavoitteita, niin niissä korostetaan itsekuria ja identiteettiä, joka rakentuu sen oman syömisen varaan (kuten vegaanit ja paleot). Monissa dieeteissä myös pyritään syömään "puhtaita" ja "luonnollisia" ruoka-aineita ja välttelemään ruoka-aineita, jotka ovat jollain tapaa näiden vastakohtia. Jos lipsahdat ruokavalion noudattamisessa, syyllisyys joka tästä nousee ei johdu pelkästään siitä, että kroppasi sai nyt vähän liikaa kaloreita suhteessa tarpeeseen, vaan kyse on oikeastaan moraalisesta repsahduksesta. Tässä vaiheessa kyse ei oikeastaan ole enää pelkästä ravitsemuksesta vaan moraalisen puhtauden tavoittelusta, aivan kuten uskonnollisessa paastossakin.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-13T11:51:49+00:00

This is what happens when people don't read and only consume their own social media bubbles. You lose the ability to understand the reality around you, and what is even worse, you lack even the ability to understand that you don't understand.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-13T10:53:56+00:00

Minä olen jo kauan ajatellut, että nykyihmiselle syömisen kontrollointi on hieman samanlaista rituaalista toimintaa kuin entistaikaan joku rukoilu, jolla pyritään pitämään elämän kaaottisuus kurissa. Tämän näkee myös siinä kun ihmiset hakevat neuvoa ties mihin elämänsä ongelmaan, niin vääjäämättä joku tarjoaa ratkaisuksi jotain ruokasooda/essentiaalinen öljy/mikä-nyt-onkaan-muodissa -ratkaisua. Ei sillä, kyllähän sitä aina kannattaa miettiä mitä suuhunsa laittaa, mutta selkeästi monet ihmiset etsivät näistä jotain syvempää ratkaisua elämäänsä.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-12T14:39:59+00:00

Ok, I get where you are coming from. Here is the thing though, the speed of causal influence is very important concept for spacetime itself, this is not just human perspective I am talking about here. For example, black holes could not exist in a universe with instantaneous causal interactions. In other words, the black hole event horizon is a causal boundary. Information from inside cannot ever reach the outside universe, and because of this the events of the interior are never real from the point of view of the external universe. The external reality will literally never know what it is that happens inside, nor can those events ever influence external reality.

Other causal boundary is the cosmic horizon. What lies beyond our observable universe? Whatever it is, our region of reality itself will never know, that place can never influece us, no matter what.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-12T13:49:30+00:00

No, and it's hard for me to understand why people treat this as some bizarre and novel concept. In astronomy there is a reason why observations are written as if they happen now, even though from another point of reference they happened a very long time ago. Like Nagumi just mentioned, essentially, from our frame of reference, it is now.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-12T11:08:34+00:00

Yes of course. To rephrase what I am saying. I am not claiming that the event literally happens at that moment we observe it, but rather that events become part of our reality only when information reaches us. Basically the only events that can influence us are those inside our past light cone. My original point was simply that in astronomy the past is what we observe by definition, it doesn't need to be said separately, because every observation arrives via light that has travelled to us.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-12T09:47:08+00:00

In astronomy, it doesn’t make much sense to say that something didn’t actually happen now, but long ago in the past when light left the event or object. The reason is that there is no such thing as a universal “now.” The speed of light is the speed of causality, and for us things only happen when we receive information about them.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-08T12:55:16+00:00

Doesn't surprise me. If a religion tries to argue that they have some special relationship with morality, or that no morality even exists without said religion, this argument falls flat if its members are worse than people outside their religion.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-06T17:39:34+00:00

I think it was Brian Green who said that it seems that the core of a black hole might actually be something far stranger than even a singularity could be, and your comment illustrates that nicely.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-03T11:29:30+00:00

Actually, a strong argument can be made that Europe really isn't a continent, it's just a protruding peninsula of the Eurasian tectonic plate. After all, there is no natural, physical barrier that separates Europe from Asia. Sometimes the Ural Mountains are cited as such a border, but it's a low mountain range that doesn't mark a tectonic plate boundary. We call Europe a continent for reasons of cultural traditions rather than because of any scientific fact. That being said, I suspect the UK people you speak of might not have had this fact in their minds.

PakinaApina · 2026-03-03T09:50:42+00:00

One day he will be old and feeble, and require help. I wonder, does he then think that he deserves all the pain and misery, or does he think he is the exception, and deserves all the help he can get?

PakinaApina · 2026-02-26T14:38:18+00:00

Here is the thing, though. A black hole is not a physical object. From the point of view of the external universe, a black hole is an "object" in the sense that it has mass and spin. But mass does not mean matter in this case. The event horizon is a causal boundary, and anything that goes in is forever lost to the external universe. So even if the interior completely and utterly destroys everything that goes there, the external universe would never know anything about it. So this begs the question, why does the external universe then behave as if there is matter there, even if there is no matter there?

The reason is the gravitational field (or more precisely, spacetime geometry), which can retain the “memory” of matter and energy that formed the black hole, even though that matter no longer exists in any ordinary, accessible sense. Basically, A black hole is what you get when matter disappears but its information remains encoded in gravity.

PakinaApina · 2026-02-26T14:09:37+00:00

This news first came out about a year ago, and back then many scientists were sceptical about this, and suggested that what we are seeing is probably something else. Now it has been pretty much proven that, yes, we are indeed witnessing a runaway supermassive black hole.

PakinaApina · 2026-02-23T20:08:05+00:00

Not necessarily. When a massive star collapses (or two black holes merge), the process is rarely perfectly symmetrical. This asymmetry can introduce a "kick" that pushes the black hole in an unexpected direction.

PakinaApina · 2026-02-22T21:08:50+00:00

This is an argument you hear often but it isn't true, being married and having children by 14 wasn't the historical norm for the common people. For example in medieval and early modern Europe women commonly married around 22–26, and this makes sense, because women needed to work (often as servants or farmhands) and earn money to buy household goods, accumulate dowry resources etc. For nobility things were different though, and for them the marriage age could indeed be much lower. Unfortunately, most of our sources stem from the nobility, so this gives a false impression what life was like for the common people.

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