Dear sci-fi writers,
You can't be weirder than reality. I dare you.
@LexYeen Is this in response to something in particular?
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@Felthry I looked up Oganesson and saw that it was formerly thought to be a gas under normal conditions, but now the prediction is that it's a solid due to relativistic effects.
And that just made me go "...nature is weirder than anyone realizes."
@LexYeen relativistic effects are also why mercury is liquid!
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@Felthry This reality never fails to astound me.
@LexYeen the alt text on https://xkcd.com/1489/ is just, emblematic of how *weird* physcis is
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@LexYeen also the fact that electromagnetism and the weak force are actually the same thing. and it's suspected the strong force and gravity are also actually the same thing, it's just that the universe hasn't been hot enough for them to be the same thing since a femtosecond or two after time started
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@Felthry This entire universe could be a tiny pocket of stability in a foam of raw chaos for all we know, and I find that beautiful.
@LexYeen Maybe it already has! inside an event horizon, time swaps places with the spatial dimension pointing inward towards the black hole. does that mean every black hole is another universe that's formed from ours? maybe! i have no idea, cosmology is weird
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