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Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth, Scientists Say::The unexplained cause of the slowed growth of the cosmic web that connects galaxies could hint at new physics.

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[-] Beardwin@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

Program is running out of memory.

[-] spacecadet@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago
[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago

If we expand anymore we’ll pop the neutron that contains the universe.

Source: Men in Black

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Does the universe—err, HAVE memory via conservation of mass or sumfing?

[-] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago
[-] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Correct. Don't forget to bring a towel!

[-] theghostoutside_@aussie.zone 73 points 1 year ago

For everyone talking about the expansion of the Universe, that's not what this is about. The Universe is still expanding, at an accelerating rate. This work is about the rate of structure formation (the large-scale clumpiness of matter) being slowed down, not the expansion of spacetime.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 18 points 1 year ago

So the galaxian filaments have surface tension?

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If I'm thinking of this right, yes, and it's like they have less than we thought and aren't splitting up into "droplets" (clusters of galaxies) as fast as we think they should be.

[-] Marketsupreme@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago

It's finally here - Physics 2

[-] nul@programming.dev 38 points 1 year ago

Electromagnetic Boogaloo

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well you heard of quatinions now get ready for 3D quatinions!

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

I hate this kind of titles that try hard to make science sound esoteric. Science is exciting enough by itself!

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

could hint at new physics.

Nice a new update it's dropping.

[-] GoosLife@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

"Patch notes: fixed weird bug slowing down the expansion of the universe; heat death now correctly occurs in 2025"

Well, shit

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[-] Nighed@sffa.community 20 points 1 year ago

Is the big crunch back on the menu?

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is that the one in a giant dorito?

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

It noticed humans and said ‘whoa whoa whoa, that’s not at all what we meant’.

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Cl1nk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

God bless you 🙏

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

Aliens. It’s always aliens.

[-] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds pretty spooky.

[-] slowroll@r.nf 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is a render distance issue, the bottleneck is clearly GPU

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

God has raised the interest rate

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Prismo just stabilised the multiverse.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

the spiders making the cosmic web are on strike duh

[-] BustinJiber@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, this totally was not my intention.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's on a bit of a diet, seems to be working, good for the universe

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Shit, I knew I forgot about doing something.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

What does... God... need... with a starship?

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 points 1 year ago

Jim, what are you doing

I am asking a question

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Because the entire universe is inside a black hole and what we percieve as expansion is acceleration to a singularity?

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/graph-measures-objects-universe-black-hole/

[-] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

“The plot suggests that if there were nothing – a complete vacuum – beyond the observable universe, our Universe would be a large, low density black hole. This is a little scary, but we have good reason to believe that’s not the case,” Patel added."

Your source refutes your claim.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The current unbiased status of the universe is in a black hole theory is that it is possible, The math could work*, but we don't have any good reasons to actually believe it is actually the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRgFqbBM5E

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I just found this fascinating:

"In other words, if a black hole was as large as the universe we can see, it would have the same density as the universe."

The idea that we could be inside a black hole and just not know it is mind boggling.

"Lineweaver notes there is an event horizon around the observable universe, just as there is around a black hole, and this is just one of the parallels between them."

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There are a bunch of parallels, but a number of those parallels are still theoretical. If this exists then it would look like that If this works like that then it would also seem like this.

The strongest statement we can make about it is there's currently no concrete evidence that it's not what's happening.

It's a great thought experiment, but it's a pretty bold jump to go from we don't see any reason this can't be true to announcing that It's the defacto case.

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