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[–] 59 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Fake. This is just a picture of earth. You could never fit the real earth into a jpg because it's made of rocks and dirt and stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    You know how Quantum Field Theory suggests that everything is a field at the smallest possible levels? The idea that everything exists “on average,” because quantum fluctuations are constantly… well, fluctuating?

    What if that evidences the idea that you don’t need solid matter in order to produce solid matter? What if you can just simulate emergent relationships from the bottom all the way up? At the bottom, it’s just bits. Kind of like how, at our bottom, it’s just fields.

    Then, in that reality, maybe you can put the Earth in a jpg. To its human occupants, they’d have no way of knowing.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    This suggests that the magic bag of holding may be possible too

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    What about black holes? The event horizon’s area scales with mass (∝ M2), but don’t some modern theories posit that the internal space can behave very differently over time and produce more space?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    True, black holes might also be possible.. I'm learning a lot

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Do you think it would be fair to argue that the universe itself is such a case, too, given entropy? If you can start with the big bang, with time as your function, you’re producing more space within a closed system that started with the singularity. Not sure that’s fair though, because maybe entropy is a constant? I don’t know.

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