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[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 327 points 5 days ago (60 children)

I took a physics course at a community college over 20 years ago and one of the things that stood out to me was the professor telling us not to overthink or assign too much romanticism to the idea of black holes.

His message was basically “it just means the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light… if you plug the size and mass of the universe into the escape velocity formula, the result you get back is greater than the speed of light, so our entire universe is a black hole.”

If this was being discussed at a community college decades ago then I think the new discoveries aren’t as revelatory as they would at first appear to the general public.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 108 points 5 days ago (38 children)

Nah really it was probably some small thing the media got a hold of and just ran with. I think you're spot on

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 111 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)
[–] msage@programming.dev 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your SMBC link doesn't work for me, it just opens the index.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] xorollo@leminal.space 13 points 5 days ago

Works now! Thanks, and very relevant.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Smbc is Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, but what does xkcd stand for?

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Xaturday Korning Creakfast Dereal

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Xerry kible cellow dip

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

It's a random unique string, chosen to make the comic easily searchable.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago
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