If we are in a black hole, then the thing you feared most about falling into a black hole must be bullshit since we are quite fine. Relative to the vastness of shit in the universe, anyway.
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I took a physics course at a community college over 20 years ago and one of the things that stood out to me was the professor telling us not to overthink or assign too much romanticism to the idea of black holes.
His message was basically “it just means the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light… if you plug the size and mass of the universe into the escape velocity formula, the result you get back is greater than the speed of light, so our entire universe is a black hole.”
If this was being discussed at a community college decades ago then I think the new discoveries aren’t as revelatory as they would at first appear to the general public.
Okay, so now you can barely afford your rent inside a black hole. Enjoy the enhanced granularity of your desperation!
That would explain why it feels like my bank account is being sucked dry.
And since you're in a black hole with your unaffordable rent, you can't escape it!!!
That is literally what the current big bang theory says! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflationary_epoch?wprov=sfla1
Yes I know what vacuum decay is, and the thing I referenced, the inflaton field, is a hypothetized false vacuum near the very start of the universe, that went through this exact process, giving rise to our current vacuum and ending the hypothetized inflation era
I know there's a hypothesis that our current vacuum could be metastable as well, but that's a seperate thing
Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?
Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!
I'll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like... A "decaying vacuum" would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD
To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers...but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect's Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)
And...not being able to ever see the beginning of everything...my curious mind says that'd be such a bummer but also...oddly beautiful? I'll have to ponder that...
Tax breaks for the rich is the only solution
I suddenly feel something trickling down from above. Is this what they were talking about all these years? Is this a good thing? It smells bad, like really bad. Like somebody is cooking meth while they have a near fatal case of diarrhea. What am I supposed to do?
paying rent sometimes feels like throwing money into a black hole
The same for mortgages too really. All these people out there toting new construction and how it’s good for property values seem to forget that higher property values means 1) higher property taxes, and 2) higher priority values, for when you sell your home and need to buy a new one.
Not to mention mortgage rates are so damn high that your mortgage payment is basically like paying rent to the bank because you're barely touching the principal on the loan
This is part of why I'm planning on over saving for my downpayment. If I'm not paying less than my rent there's no way in hades I'll ever be able to afford repairs
I just bought a house, and honestly, dont even try to get a above 20% to knock off pmi (assuming thats a thing where you are). When we sold our previous house and did a recast with the proceeds, the difference between hitting 20% and hitting the 20% + $50k was about $200 in monthly payments
Therefore your landlord's bank account is a black hole. Therefore black holes are inside banks. Therefore the universe is inside a bank.
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