Everyone has something they can’t stop themselves from nerding out over - but often it’s hard to find people to talk to about it. So go ahead, share your interests, and tell us about them!

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    1 year ago

    I’ll humour you! Time is fascinating and malleable and really quite intangible.

    So, if you want, fire away with anything you find fascinating about the concept of time!

    • Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes I feel like we’re living inside a firework. Like we’re just on an infinitesimally tiny fragment of an explosion that happened billions of years ago. Perhaps in another scale the entire universe is created and destroyed in the blink of an eye.

      If a being were the size of a galaxy, how would our solar system appear to them? Would it look debris swirling around in air? Yet it spans countless lifetimes in a few seconds.

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        1 year ago

        I love this.

        It’s so weird that we exist at all.

        Like, what even is the universe? Why do we happen to exist within this bubble of chemistry and physics?

        One thing that always struck me is how anyone can act in selfishness given how lucky we are to exist in the first place. Why squander this opportunity to do something amazing? We should all be living in idyllic peace and comfort. Otherwise, what’s the point?

        We might be the only ones to ever be aware of our existence. Like you said, in another scale we might appear and be snuffed out in an instant. Why condemn our already uncertain legacy?