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Upvoting because I've never seen this
but also I am now sad
But what's the frame of reference?
The black hole in the centre of the universe.
Where's the center ?
Ps: i know the answer.. this was a joke
Probably where the big bang was, aka the one point all galaxies are getting away from.
I believe the current theory is that the big bang happened everywhere equally, like a stretch, so there is no specific spot we can point to where it happened.
I wonder if Fido knows how to handle that in his calculations.
Oh boy you're gonna have good time learning about the formation of spacetime!
I'll start you off. If space and time didn't exist before the big bang..
Wtf this is terrifying
Is it though?
You've died, what's there to be afraid of? You're no longer a bag of chemicals what is there to feel?
In the comic you are still conscious. Forever. Not being able to move in any direction, the universe around you slowly drifting away. You will be swallowed by the darkness between the stars for a hundred billion years, all the while fully aware that you are completely and utterly alone with your own thoughts.
Eventually, she stopped thinking.
Is that a JoJo reference
I was expecting to see a trail of ghosts left behind as the earth moves away.
There is the Great Ghost Cluster in the distant void, passing messages up and down its endless stream of ghost bodies in order to log world events at the speed of voice.
This is actually an awesome writing prompt: The older ghosts get updates from the younger ones, and send stories back from their own lives, like a long telephone wire..
That story wouldn't get to the beginning of the line without being completely changed to be unrecognisable
That feels like practically a feature, when you have an eternity to fill and only a finite number of original stories with which to do so.
I don't like this
So there's just a long ass trail of ghosts floating in space?
At least some sections would be heavily populated....
This implies there's an absolute center to the universe relative to which the earth moves but spirits do not.
Or you just maintain your velocity at death. With no other forces, that's the way you head forever
But this character died stationary on the floor. Unless it's the Earth moving away from her as part of its normal orbit, in which case she'll get to visit it again soon
No because the sun and the earth are always moving in a line and an orbit in addition to their orbit.
The actual absolute position would resemble a curving helix or something. Nothing in the universe is ever in the same general location twice for our current understanding. Everything is moving.
Not exactly. Things are moving relative to each other, but it really is all relative and local. There's no central point in the universe that the earth is moving away from. The earth is moving relative to the sun. But relative to you, the earth isn't moving. Relative to the earth, the sun is moving.
There's no reason for her to move away from the earth unless she's being accelerated by something. It's not like the earth would zip away because it is moving relative to some distant, arbitrary point and she suddenly becomes "stationary". There's no universal "stationary".
I guess where it gets messy is that the earth IS being accelerated to some extent by different things (other planets, the moon, etc). I'm not sure how much. So if she didn't accelerate along with it at all, it would move away from her.
If she is still affected by gravity, but passes through matter, she would immedietly fall through the floor and start orbiting the earth through the planet.
Without gravity she would no longer follow the earth's/sun's/etc. orbit.
ITT: people thinking way too hard about a comic
you know its a good comic when it makes people think too hard about it
Nothing is as terrifying as SpaceEngine.
Frankly. This⦠software rearranged my brain and changed me fundamentally.
There are no words to describe being lost in the 10^27 of space. Itβs just too much, you will go insane and if you survive you will lose the ability to talk with people, lose every single thing that you thought matters. You will be alone even in the busiest of places, some part of you forever stuck in the 10^27 of emptiness between Galaxy Groups.
This isnβt a joke. Ignorance is bliss
It's anxiety inducing in VR, so fucking cool
to be a little pedantic, if you take in account the rate of expansion of the universe, and take as a truth that the ghost stays stationary in spacetime, earth would disappear in an instant
The spirit is already moving at the same speed and in the same direction as the earth when it exits the body.
That's a fair point. So then one might expect the ghost to continue their motion tangential to the orbit of the earth, and so they'll float away.
However, the theory of general relativity suggests that gravity isn't really like other forces. It doesn't push or pull anything at all; but rather its bends the fabric of time and space. Objects 'falling' due to gravity, or 'in orbit' around a planet are actually moving in a direct straight line in curved space-time. And this is why gravity still applies to massless objects such as light. So then, I'd say the ghost would still be affected by gravity - and that their main concern would be falling into the earth rather than drifting away.