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Wormholes (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's cute how humans always think they are capable of explaining such things as these.

I 100% support theoretical investigation, and the pursuit of scientific examination... But we don't KNOW a whole lot about wormholes. We can only GUESS based on visual evidence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

What visual evidence of wormholes? If I'm not mistaken, they're purely theoretical objects at this point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If we're really being pedantic, that's technically true about everything. For all you know you're hallucinating me right now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I knew it!

I am the Boltzmann brain!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No, it's different. With you, there's at least something that we observe that we might be hallucinating.

With worm holes, we're taking mathematical equations that were modelled to reflect what we've observed of reality and then we're pushing them to extreme cases where they're likely to not anymore model reality correctly, and that is where we're seeing the theoretical possibility of worm holes. No one has observed nor hallucinated worm holes.