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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (7 children)

NOT "discovered inside black hole", just gained further theoretical evidence for the Earth being in a less dense area of the universe. There has been actual evidence of such for some time (at least a decade), but there is uncertainty at such large scales so it cannot be called conclusive based only on a couple types of observation that may have erroneous procedures.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

so basically We're out in butt fuck no where in space and the aliens aren't coming any time soon cause they essentially live in New York City and we're in a town in Iowa that no one has ever heard of.

typical.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy.

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[–] Zron@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It’s entirely possible that there are no aliens in the “New York City” part of the universe.

Dense regions of space will have much more interactions between stellar systems and may not be stable enough for life to evolve. It could be why we haven’t seen anyone else, they’re all in their own little pockets of peace.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

We should all be celebrating our good fortune, protection against a dark forest strike!

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except from aliens that are also stuck here with us

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We're not stuck in here with them. They're stuck in here with us!

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone got a link to either nasa or a good article explaining it?

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Scientific American points to an important fact.

"With our latest surveys, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid, by my very rough estimation, we’ve taken pictures of somewhere around 100 million galaxies out of the two trillion or so estimated to exist in the entire observable universe.

Shamir’s paradigm-shattering conclusion relies on 263 of them."

They are discussing bias in the selection.

"Unfortunately, this kind of extreme selection introduces many opportunities for bias to creep in. When we test a new idea in cosmology—indeed, in all of science—we work to make our conclusion as robust as possible. For example, if we were to change any of these filtering steps, from the selection of survey region to the threshold for deciding whether to include a galaxy in the analysis, our results should hold up or at least show a clear trend where the signal becomes stronger. But there isn’t enough information about such methodological checks in Shamir’s paper to make that judgment, which casts doubt on the validity of the conclusions."

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Both are fair and valid.

Peaceful science & good housing should go hand in hand.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago

You better start believing in compression systems you're in one

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 week ago

Considering NASA could be canceled by an ass hole, I think we have other problems.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hasn't this been a theory for a while now? The event horizon of a black hole keeps information minus one dimension. and the theory goes that our entire universe is just at the edge or a black hole in a 4D universe

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 8 points 1 week ago

we could acknowledge it as a possibility AND work to better our um.. local frame of reference.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes, we ignore it. Given the size of the universe, if being inside a black implies any conseqences that will ever hurt us, it will be a process that takes billions of years to develop, giving the human race billions of years to either become extinct or solve the problem.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Don't get me wrong, understanding the nature of the universe is valuable and noteworthy. But how would that information meaningfully impact anyone's life or change their behavior or worldview beyond a general awe at the unfathomable mysteries we already have towards space as we've understood it for centuries? Especially in a way that would ne noticeable to this person. Am I meant to stare up at the sky from 8:15 to 8:30 every other night with my mouth agap while I try to wrap my mind around the spacetime bubble we all exist on the surface of? Or can I just eat dinner?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The reason research like this exists is because we don't know what we don't know. Results like these are meant to stoke curiousity so that more research can be done.

So on and so forth until one day you have horseshoe crabs saving millions of lives. But they didn't know that would be the case when they started researching them crabs, function comes after exploration.

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