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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Upvoting because I've never seen this

but also I am now sad

[–] quaternaut@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But what's the frame of reference?

[–] greyw0lv@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The black hole in the centre of the universe.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Where's the center ?

Ps: i know the answer.. this was a joke

[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Probably where the big bang was, aka the one point all galaxies are getting away from.

[–] tweeks@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

I believe the current theory is that the big bang happened everywhere equally, like a stretch, so there is no specific spot we can point to where it happened.

I wonder if Fido knows how to handle that in his calculations.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eventually, she stopped thinking.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

Is that a JoJo reference

[–] Stiffneckedppl@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was expecting to see a trail of ghosts left behind as the earth moves away.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is the Great Ghost Cluster in the distant void, passing messages up and down its endless stream of ghost bodies in order to log world events at the speed of voice.

This is actually an awesome writing prompt: The older ghosts get updates from the younger ones, and send stories back from their own lives, like a long telephone wire..

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

I don't like this

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 1 points 6 months ago

So there's just a long ass trail of ghosts floating in space?

At least some sections would be heavily populated....

[–] emmie@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing is as terrifying as SpaceEngine.

Frankly. This… software rearranged my brain and changed me fundamentally.

There are no words to describe being lost in the 10^27 of space. It’s just too much, you will go insane and if you survive you will lose the ability to talk with people, lose every single thing that you thought matters. You will be alone even in the busiest of places, some part of you forever stuck in the 10^27 of emptiness between Galaxy Groups.

This isn’t a joke. Ignorance is bliss

[–] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 1 points 6 months ago

It's anxiety inducing in VR, so fucking cool

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ITT: people thinking way too hard about a comic

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

you know its a good comic when it makes people think too hard about it

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This implies there's an absolute center to the universe relative to which the earth moves but spirits do not.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or you just maintain your velocity at death. With no other forces, that's the way you head forever

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But this character died stationary on the floor. Unless it's the Earth moving away from her as part of its normal orbit, in which case she'll get to visit it again soon

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No because the sun and the earth are always moving in a line and an orbit in addition to their orbit.

The actual absolute position would resemble a curving helix or something. Nothing in the universe is ever in the same general location twice for our current understanding. Everything is moving.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly. Things are moving relative to each other, but it really is all relative and local. There's no central point in the universe that the earth is moving away from. The earth is moving relative to the sun. But relative to you, the earth isn't moving. Relative to the earth, the sun is moving.

There's no reason for her to move away from the earth unless she's being accelerated by something. It's not like the earth would zip away because it is moving relative to some distant, arbitrary point and she suddenly becomes "stationary". There's no universal "stationary".

I guess where it gets messy is that the earth IS being accelerated to some extent by different things (other planets, the moon, etc). I'm not sure how much. So if she didn't accelerate along with it at all, it would move away from her.

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

If she is still affected by gravity, but passes through matter, she would immedietly fall through the floor and start orbiting the earth through the planet.

Without gravity she would no longer follow the earth's/sun's/etc. orbit.

[–] hswolf@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

to be a little pedantic, if you take in account the rate of expansion of the universe, and take as a truth that the ghost stays stationary in spacetime, earth would disappear in an instant

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The spirit is already moving at the same speed and in the same direction as the earth when it exits the body.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

That's a fair point. So then one might expect the ghost to continue their motion tangential to the orbit of the earth, and so they'll float away.

However, the theory of general relativity suggests that gravity isn't really like other forces. It doesn't push or pull anything at all; but rather its bends the fabric of time and space. Objects 'falling' due to gravity, or 'in orbit' around a planet are actually moving in a direct straight line in curved space-time. And this is why gravity still applies to massless objects such as light. So then, I'd say the ghost would still be affected by gravity - and that their main concern would be falling into the earth rather than drifting away.