[-] Ymer@feddit.dk 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I very much appreciate the effort to write your repsonse, and if you're out of time or energy I completely understand.

So if I'm understanding you right, we're 3-dimensional creatures living in a 4-dimensional universe, with the 4th dimension being... time? And time behaves completely different from the other 3 dimensions, which is why we can't just disregard or freeze it when trying to determine a center?

[-] Ymer@feddit.dk 2 points 21 hours ago

That could sort of explain why it's inherently impossible to determine the center - but that doesn't rule out the existence of a geometric center of the universe, right?

[-] Ymer@feddit.dk 3 points 21 hours ago

I'm not sure if I follow the balloon analogy. Sure, you can't find the center on it's surface. But somewhere within the balloon, there is a center. It might be virtually impossible to determine the center while actively inflating the balloon, but that doesn't mean there isn't any center? What makes the rest of the universe fundamentally different from an inflating balloon? I'm genuinely curious.

[-] Ymer@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago

Shouldn't it be (at least theoretically) possible to find some sort of geometric center where - on average - the rest of the universe is expanding away from?

[-] Ymer@feddit.dk 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but it'll be a random family member - not necessarily a woman or LGBTQ+.

[-] Ymer@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I appreciate that pressure cookers has the potential to reduce energy consumption by shortening the cooking time. Having said that, doesn't it seem a bit against the whole BIFL-movement to choose an electric pressure cooker rather than just a stovetop pressure cooker with far fewer possible points of failure? I'm sure the electric ones have a host of different features, but still... Simple stuff tend to last better.

Ymer

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