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http://onlyspacetime.com/

Is this a legitimate hypothesis? Google doesn't provide any examples of people tearing it apart, but the author seems a bit too fanatical for me to believe his overall claims.

>> No.7630951

>>7630937
Hahaha fuck you Papua New Guinea.

>> No.7630957

>>7630937
last time i visited the great/grand canyon it wasnt that big

>> No.7630966

>>7630937
physics has gone too far.
the deeper you search for a meaning to life the more you realise there isn't one.
physics used to have practical applications.
the theory we cobble together now is not only blind guesswork and impossible to prove but has no benefit.

>Is this a legitimate hypothesis?
it's easy to say things don't matter. this time it's objective.

>> No.7631164

>>7630966
That's it then? It's too far into the theoretical realm to really determine whether he is spouting nonsense or reasonably based in reality?

>> No.7631170

>>7631164
hes just a cynical pessimist.

fuckin sad life

>> No.7631173

>>7631164
yes.

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7631196

Okay then. I was mostly just curious if I was missing some glaringly obvious "This is bullshit" sign before delving into into it.

>> No.7632735

>>7630937
wether it is bullshit or not, this honestly sounds like an interesting read.
it looks more interesting than string theory at least, and (to me) just as probable

>> No.7632740

>>7630937
>its on the internet so it must be true. They even have a website!
the usual first step in the lifecycle of a hypothesis on the way to a renown theory is a paper in Nature or Arxiv

>> No.7633001

>>7630951
kekold

>> No.7633177

>>7632740

My first step was trying to determine if it was bullshit specifically because internet.

>> No.7633226

>>7631196
Even the URL screams crackpot.

>> No.7633254
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7633254

>Before Copernicus, it was assumed that the earth was the center of the universe. Now we know
>that we do not live in a special place in the universe, but we at least assume that both our size
>and our rate of time are constant. I am proposing that the final indignity to mankind is that
>spacetime is going through a transformation that contracts all physical objects, including the
>earth and our bodies. Furthermore, the rate of time is also slowing down. It is proposed that the
>spacetime field is undergoing a transformation which is responsible for what we perceive to be
>the expansion of the volume of the universe.

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7633298

>>7633254
>the rate of time is also slowing down
relative to what tho?

>> No.7633322

>>7630966
That's just nearsighted. Nothing wrong with life having a lack of inherent meaning, as it doesn't stop anyone from concocting personal meaning. Physics still does have practical uses, even the most bleeding edge shit will. Science for science's sake is a worthwhile cause, and typically that science ends up being applied to practical things eventually.

You only see it how you do because you are ignorant.

>> No.7633546

>>7630937
I've thought about it before.
If matter is condensed energy, then that energy comes from "empty space", since there would be no matter to fill it. Vacuum energy.
The link between gravity and bent space/time is that mass is that energy contorted into structures leaving a disparity in the field that pulls on other objects that create that same pull.
Like, if you took a hypothetically 2D cloth, grabbed a point, and twisted it until it made a knot, that knot would represent a particle with mass. Now make that 3D and this knot is pulling in all directions within 3 dimensions.

>> No.7633579

>>7630951
i don't know why this was so funny

>> No.7633657

>>7630937
>We metaphysics now
Need a psychology and philosophy board mods...

>> No.7634214

>>7630966
Remember when they said that quantum mechanics had no practical usage, then we got the transistor? Just because applications aren't readily apparent doesn't mean we won't find a usage for the science.

>> No.7634229

>>7630966
the fuck you smoking?

things that are coming out based on newish physics discoveries:

>quantum tunneling pressure sensing
>quantum entanglement based imaging
>next, next, next gen computers (after we hit the 7nm cast die window)