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==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cosmology you put enough mass in a small enough area it becomes a singularity.

Quantum mechanics information can't be destroyed to an unrecoverable state so singularities are impossible.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

A big bang could recover it, you don't know. It's statistically possible and that's all that counts