With our current understanding of the expanding universe, how long will it take for GN-z11 to vanish behind the cosmological horizon?
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Have we ever seen anything disappear beyond the cosmological event horizon?

Sorta self explanatory but I'll try to clarify.

So the cosmological horizon is the distance beyond which we can no longer see things moving away from us as the expansion rate of spacetime exceeds lightspeed. Since space is expanding at a relatively constant rate, the further something is, the faster it's pushed away which compounds over and over in a feedback loop, increasing in (relative) speed with an acceleration equal to the expansion rate. Shouldn't we, in theory, be seeing things very near the cosmological horizon disappearing beyond it as they reach and exceed that distance? Have we ever observed this?

If I'm wrong in my assumption I'd love to know why. It just seems strange to me that we keep finding new (very old) stars near the edge of our universe, but I can't find anything about them spontaneously winking out of existence by reaching lightspeed.

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Is moving relative to the rest frame of the Cosmic Microwave Background the same as moving relative to the cosmological horizon?
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Fractal Universe - A Cosmological Arch : new album The Impassable Horizon out today youtu.be/FRu2Xz-DF-w
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Do cosmological horizons produce Hawking radiation similar to black hole event horizons?

If so, how does this change with the size of the horizon as the expansion of the universe accelerates?

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How many galaxies/stars do we visually lose every year due to them accelerating and passing through the cosmological event horizon?

I was reading about dark energy on Wikipedia and this question had me pondering on a bit.

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Hello everyone, I appreciate all the feedback received from this post and I'm grateful for such well presented answers. I realise that this sort of question can raise many different answers due to the question being too general.

But as I understand from most of the replies... The reason the light from those stars will never entirely vanish is because even when the star/galaxy passes the cosmological event horizon, the space between us and them is only expanding and so the light that was sent before the star/galaxy passing the cosmological event horizon will only stretch due to the expansion and continue to reach us but through other spectrums of light as it continues to redshift. Would this be correct?

I would also like to bring forward a question that has been brought up by a few other redditors. However as it may seem there is no exact answer to it, I'd like to ask a question similar to it:

Which stars/galaxies have most noticeably redshifted or faded from visual light? I'd definitely like to read up on this topic so any names or articles would be great. Thanks again guys!

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I see your measurable distances and raise you the cosmological horizon.
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Two questions on cosmological horizons: A) How far in the future will our local group be "FTL isolated" from all other galaxies? B) How far away are the furthest galaxies we'll ever be able to see? Clarification below. Thanks

Apologies if any of my current understanding is incorrect, please let me know. Thanks.

A) As I understand it, our local group will eventually merge due to gravitational attraction, while all other galaxies will move away from us due to spacetime expansion. How far into the future will all non-gravitationally-bound galaxies be expanding away from us at FTL speeds, and hence be impossible to ever reach or even see again?

B) There are galaxies far away whose light is just leaving their stars and heading in our direction. The light from some of these galaxies will never reach us because either the galaxies are already receding FTL, or because somewhere in the space between us expansion will reach FTL speed before the light gets past that point. So how far are the furthest galaxies whose light will still eventually reach us in the far future? When will we see that light (distance in lightyears is not equivalent to the time light takes due to expansion)? And does this distance represent one of the named cosmological horizons?

Thanks!

Edit : Bonus question: If a galaxy is x billion light years away, is there some relatively simple formula for working out how long it takes for its light to reach us, taking spacetime expansion (or is "space expansion" better technically?) into account?

Sorry, that's actually a lot more than two questions! :D

2nd edit : I guess I'm expecting us to assume that space expansion continues to accelerate at its current rate, but it would also be interesting to know how different space expansion models would affect the answers too.

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What's past the cosmological horizon?

Do we know what's past the cosmological horizon in the un observable areas of the universe?

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Is it possible to travel beyond the cosmological horizon?

I just wanna appreciate how far I can go with this, thanks

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Clusters of black holes found near central galactic black hole. This is in-line with Nassim's postulation of continuous matter creation and the birth of stars at the equatorial horizons of SMBHs. Black holes are repeatedly being shown as _primary_ cosmological structures. resonance.is/black-hole-cโ€ฆ
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How much force would i need to jump with to go beyond the cosmological event horizon in a split second?
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@sciam: What does a black hole really look like? The Event Horizon Telescope may have captured the first picture of these cosmological beasts. What should we expect to see? https://t.co/igHOhdHKh0 (from 2017) https://t.co/nZAYqLOzu9 mobile.twitter.com/sciam/โ€ฆ
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Lonely, doing astrophysics work, be my friend! Also, Cosmological Horizons as a band name y/n?

Please, follow up on anything I mention here, or just tell me how your life is going, or a fun fact about the world. Anything you like!

Astronomy just has all the best words! For ages I've been in this unexplained super happy positive mood, but past few days it's ended and I've been feeling kinda anxious and a bit sad. I'm still happy for the happiness I had though, you know? Gotta be glad for grace.

I'm trying to get out of the habit of feeling bad about feeling bad, but it still gets me sometimes. I miss my friends who live far away (my brain says "No, you don't get to do that, because some people don't have friends! YOU SUCK" but my brain is wrong about that). The girl I like at uni doesn't check her Facebook messages often and I get tremendously over-analysy. I really have to SAY something about my feelings about her soon, especially because I sort of maybe think there might be a chance of reciprocation, but it's scary!

I went out to a few op shops earlier today, which is one of my favourite activities. Ended up substantially expanding my CD collection, everything from Rachmaninov to Missy Higgins. Also I got perfect marks in my maths assignment after trying really hard on it which I'm proud of. There's plenty of happy things in my life right now, but I'm still sad, which just happens sometimes.

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Is the cosmic microwave background radiation that we are seeing now coming from places within the cosmological event horizon?

This confusion arose because I'm trying to figure out the particle horizon. From my understanding, the particle horizon is the distance that light can have traveled in 13.7 billion years (since the birth of the universe), which thanks to cosmic expansion, is not 13.7 billion light years. Now, due to the nature of the early universe, we actually can't see the light of the big bang. We can only see the light after the universe cooled down enough. This happened 380,000 years after the big bang. This light is also the source of the CMB, which probably used to be cosmic "gamma ray" background, but thanks to the expansion of the universe, the wavelength of these photons have stretched to microwave range.

Now, the cosmological event horizon is a distance from an observer such that at this distance, any light emitted NOW will never reach us in finite time. So, if there's a source of the CMB at this distance, and it sends out a microwave photon NOW, it will never reach us. So doesn't this mean that the CMB that we do see must be coming from within the event horizon? Or at least, the source of the CMB that we are seeing today must have originally been within the cosmological horizon when that source emitted the photons.

Now, the particle horizon grows as time goes on and this makes sense because if there's more time for photons to travel, then they will travel greater distances. We also see the CMB constantly because these photons are coming from further and further distances away. The sphere that the CMB comes from (known as the surface of last scattering) is always "in front of" the particle horizon sphere (when viewed from Earth). I.e. it is closer to Earth than the particle horizon. So, as the particle horizon expands, so does the surface of last scattering. But the surface of last scattering is 46 billion light years away (approximately as far away as the particle horizon), which is way beyond the cosmological event horizon. So how can we be seeing light coming from such vast distances, if the event horizon is the distance beyond which light emitted now can never reach us?

One explanation could be that we are seeing the CMB as emitted by objects from within the event horizon and that as these sources approach the event horizon, the CMB they emit will get redshifted beyond detection (as is what happens with anything else that approaches the event horizon). So, the CMB is originating from within the event horizon and as the sources of the CMB approaches th

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Can Hawking radiation from a de Sitter cosmological horizon appear to be red/blue-shifted relative to a moving observer?

I think the answer is 'only if the moving observer is accelerating', but can someone confirm this and give an explanation of why this is the case? My reasoning is that, if there was a blue-shift for a moving non-accelerating observer, that would imply a special frame of reference that could be determined by the dipole moment of the Hawking radiation, just like we can determine our local motion relative to the CMB by the dipole moment in full-sky surveys of the CMB, but I don't really understand what mechanism would be behind this, and I'm not 100% confident that this is the case at all since my reasoning is based on there being outlandish implications if it's true, and not based on an understanding of the actual mechanism of operation of cosmological horizons and their emission of Hawking radiation with respect to moving observers.

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Is there a VSauce episode where the cosmological event horizon is discussed?

I could've sworn there was one, but I can't find it. I've been binging on episodes trying to find it but have so far failed. It's the idea that because of the universe's rate of expansion, even if we traveled at the speed of light, we cannot escape the local group of galaxies

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Cosmological Horizons. The Past, Present and Future Limits of Astronomy with Dr. Paul Sutter youtube.com/watch?v=DXtWrโ€ฆ
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What's the difference between the cosmological event horizon and future horizon?

As near as I can tell, they're the same thing, the distance beyond which light/events happening "right now" (given an appropriate surface of simultaneaty) will never be able to have any causal influence over us.

So... what am I missing?

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A lone photon within the DeSitter Horizon. Late-late cosmology.

Imagine our universe far in the future. All black holes have evaporated and there is nothing left but radiation, dark energy and curvature governing the expansion.

The Hubble paramater falls to its minimum and our Hubble Horizon becomes a DeSitter horizon, beyond which any particles are moving away faster than the speed of light.

Eventually, the Desitter horizon with respect to some photon would contain only that photon and nothing else. All other photons are beyond the DeSitter Horizon. There is now effectively an observable universe for every photon in existence.

With no reasonable reference frame besides the photon itself, would it still be considered moving? Does it even make sense to say that it's travelling at c when only the photon's wavelength is changing from one trillion years to the next?

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Anybody here also a fan of John Michael Godier?

I recently began checking out Isaacโ€™s friend and fellow futurist: John Michael Godier. I went through all his Top 10 episodes but havenโ€™t watched his non-list episodes. School starts again for me soon so I was wondering if anyone could tell me of any concepts and ideas that John has introduced to you while watching his videos?

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Complexity on the horizon: computational complexity as a building block for cosmology nature.com/news/theoreticโ€ฆ
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I am living at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as part of the medical support staff, ask me anything!

EDIT: Thanks so much for your interest Reddit! I'm closing the AMA at this time.

Don't forget that this amazing station and the research taking place here is made possible by the National Science Foundation via the US Antarctic Program, and all the wonderful people working behind the scenes at HQ to make it a reality every day.

Hi Reddit!

My name is Josiah Horneman, and I work and live at the South Pole. You may also have seen me on TikTok as JoeSpinsTheGlobe.

Proof: https://ibb.co/3ygh19q

I am a physician assistant (PA) who has been working in the medical clinic of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station since February 2021. That time period encompasses our winter, where the sun never rises above the horizon for 6 months, and it is completely dark for 3 months. We have no flights or other transport during winter; 39 of us have lived in complete isolation from the rest of the world for the better part of a year.

Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest, and coldest continent on earth, and here at the South Pole we've had a record-setting year for low temperatures. We've had several instances of temps under -100F (-73C), and have generally been accustomed to a constant -90F (-68C) over the winter. But there are perks! Since the station is built on top of 9,300ft (2800m) of snow and ice, I haven't seen dirt since I got here, and cleaning is a breeze. Also, there are no bugs (or animals of any kind besides us humans), and you never have to worry about popcorn or chips going stale.

Living and working here has been an amazing experience, and I've loved being able to show small slices of South Pole life to my 1 million+ followers on TikTok. Ask Me Anything!

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The station is managed

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Have we reached the limit to our visible horizon?

What I realized is that if space-time is expanding at about 70 kilometers per second per megaparsec, and our observable universe is expanding at the speed of light due to more and more light finally reaching us from further and further away, then we will never see anything further than a certain distance because their light will never reach us. Light from the other side of that point is traveling slower towards us than the space between that point and earth is expanding.

This is a loophole in the fundamental laws of our universe. Relativity says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. However, if something is far enough away from us, it is traveling away from us faster than the speed of light, even if it is remaining perfectly still. This is because the space between two objects can grow faster than the speed of light relative to those objects if there is enough space between them. Speed is something that you measure relative to space, but in this caseย space itselfย is expanding, so speed through distance no longer means anything. The speed of light remains the same no mater how far it travels, but the distance it has to travel to reach us is growing faster than it travels. I'm not able to find anything online that confirms that there is a limit to what we will one day be able to see, so this may all be false. It's all an axiom thought up by someone who didn't even finish highschool

I guess the problem would look like 74km/sec/Mpc*x=c

Ok light travels at 3ร—10โธ m/sec 299792.458km/sec exactly So 74*x=299792.458? I think that would give you how many megaparsecs away something would have to be to start traveling away at the speed of light. Ok. So In my calculator I put 299792.458รท74= 4051.2494324324 So if my math is correct, that's how many megaparsecs the radius of our maximum visible universe horizon could be. One megaparsec is 3261563.78 light-years, so

3,261,563.78 light-years ร—4,051.2494324324 megaparsecs= 13,213,408,412.567 light-years

The radius of our current visible universe is estimated to be about 13.5 billion light-years and it is believed that it will keep growing as more light travels to us.

However, If my math is correct, and if my above thinking is correct, I believe that the visible universe has already reached the limit of it's expansion at about 13.2 billion light-years, and there's no telling how long it has been that size.

On a white board I did some more math:

74รท299792.458 = 4051.249432 with 432 repeating

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BLACK HOLE and a chaotic world

All timestamps refer to this version that should be watched with captions on.


BLACK HOLE is not on that same Spotify playlist Sayonakidori also isnโ€™t, so I heard it for the first time at the end of my run through Unseen World. And so did mostly everyone else who got to experience it, I believe. Which is a good thing, because this song needs the context.

In its most available version, Unseen World starts with a very modern read of a Purcell-like chamber music piece, with a very haunting interplay of three different melodies by plucked and bowed violins, and a glockenspiel, woven into each other and punctuated by timpani and distant cymbal crashes, all of which very loosely support a tension-building tuba thatโ€™s constantly descending in pitch to the point where the song seems to start just because the tuba canโ€™t get any lower. Some sort of unnatural noise fades in from nowhere then takes over...

That is the opening of this absolute contemporary masterpiece of an album. An album that is hopeful and positive but also filled with all the anger and frustration of a tightly knitted group of people who used to be with each other 300 out the 365 days of the year. And BLACK HOLE is its the closing argument. When I talked about Sayonakidori I said it was โ€œthe romantic love poem ballad 2021 deservesโ€. Well, BLACK HOLE is this yearโ€™s theme song!

It almost got called โ€œCHAOSโ€ and it is often described by fans as โ€œcontrolled chaosโ€, but to me this tune is more akin to turbulence - chaos in motion. Kanami, taking hints from Dadaism and Futurism, wrote an impossible song that feels almost like a Force of Nature. All its interacting moving parts feel uncontrollably powerful and unpredictable, almost unquantifiable. And yet, thereโ€™s a point to it. It is chaotic, for sure, but it also flows very deliberately in a certain direction.

A black hole is a real thing. It is an infinitesimal point in space with infinite density (i.e. super small, super heavy), which makes it a hard thing to describe or measure and an impossible thing to escape from ([Hawking radiation](ht

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What's the weakest verse (if any) that could 10/10 the Dark Tower verse?

I know nothing about Dark Tower, only that it gets name dropped a lot as a over-the-top win-all verse. Compared to things like Marvel, DC, DBS, even SCP - it's referred to by many as more infinite, larger cosmology, etc

So to broaden my horizons - are there any verses out there that are even more powerful, with more fleshed-out mythology that can handle Dark Tower? Umineko? Some Hentai mythology Socrates? Let's hear it!

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The Eldwurms in Dota dragon blood super LORE.(warning long post)TLDR at bottom

>People seem to thinks that Eldwurms maybe not as important in dota lore, compare to the like of Elder Titan or The Fundamental, or at least in game origin lore which I can see. Some might lead to believe that the 8 Thunder Eldwurm maybe just The "fundamental avatar" but there maybe something deeper than that. To put on a perspective of what 8 thunder are in dragon blood. First we need to know what the writers of the series thought about the 8 thunder and dota lore in general.

Ashley miller the show Creator state in twitter that Ddb drove the game to add marci in, but have no control over it, Valve decide it same with davion persona, thus you can say maybe not all Ddb are cannon but I'll suggest otherwise. All davion persona line have pretty much stay consistent with the show, and it feat and cosmology. But nothing that in Ddb have "contradict the the source materials" and this for concept of cannon for a fun read.

This is the beginning of the jouney to understand The 8 Thunders. First we need to understand these concept.

What are Metaphysical (shout out to Executor N0 for making all the wonderfull blogs)for this I'll only focus on 8 Thunders and what I believe to be the case.

https://imgur.com/a/42uDBQA

>So, let's start to look for the models. Since I just spoke of Ancient Greek and I know most of the people here already know what is in the Conceptual Manipulation page, so let's talk about Plato.
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>I think that it's already common sense what Plato's idea was. Two levels of reality, one of space-time, change, matter, the physical world that we live in. The other is outside of space-time, an eternal realm of unchangeable "Forms" unbounded by the physical matter.
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>But of course, Plato didn't think only of the Forms themselves, there was also the "Soul" (ฯˆฯ…ฯ‡ฮฎ/psyche) that is explained in **Plato's Tr

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BBC air "Horizon: What is Reality?". A great episode all about physics and cosmology.

For UK people, it is available on iPlayer right here. For non-UK, I recommend checking out TPB or elsewhere shortly.

The show didn't seem to dumb anything down, apart from some stuff about black holes and the holographic life theory, but they are pretty ambiguous topics anywho.

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In which I get to talk cosmology and event horizons with "Interstellar" VFX supe Paul Franklin btlnews.com/awards/contenโ€ฆ
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Worldbuilding Advice

Hello,

I am currently working on a Homebrew DnD Setting.

The setting is called Espel and meant to be loosely based on Weird-/Mystery-Fiction and Modern American Horror. Which is to say, I ultimately want the setting to be ideal for people that want their game flavored (flavored being the key word here, I am well aware that DnD is not the ideal system for actual stories like this, just as Ravenloft doesn't mean DnD is great for Gothic Horror) like anything between shows like Twin Peaks, X-Files or even the early seasons of Supernatural, or one of the better Stephen King novels: Ridiculus amounts of small, secluded towns with some sort of dark history, surrounded by large, misty woods, cornfields that stretch to the horizon, dusty plains or whatever else gives each location the impression of being nothing but an island of civilisation, and the sea of unpopulated lands inhabited by horrors of folklore or nightmares spawned from the black between the stars.

I hope the general vibe I am going for has sufficiently come across.

What I struggle with, currently, is the cosmology. The classic DnD cosmology is constructed around the alignment system, which I don't use. Instead, when creating worlds, I tend to design factions with the help of the color pie from Magic: The Gathering (which, I am aware, some people hate having connect to DnD, but I think it makes more sense for my games than alignment, sooo... yeah) and figured it would make sense if the material plane of Espel was surrounded by five planes, corresponding to the color pie, that serve the common goal of keeping out the Old Ones that constantly gnaw at the rims of reality.

Now, white, black and green are fairly easy: White corresponds to the realm of Celestials, becoming my settings equivalent of the upper planes, Black is a plane literally called the Underworld, housing fiends and undead, Green is the land of fey and elementals.

I do, however, struggle with Red and Blue. For those who don't know, Red corresponds to the ideas of Impulse and Chaos, whereas Blue corresponds to Logic and Technology, or, more simply put, Red is the color of creatures that act based on their unmediated emotions and whims and Blue is the color of creatures that act based on them being freaking nerds. (*Also, in case it matters, White correspons to morality and order, Black to Parasitism and Amorality and Green to Instinct and Interdependence, so you got the cosmic Lawful Good faction, the faction that is all about A

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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Mage the Ascension Cosmology

Can someone please explain the cosmology of ascension and oWoD as a whole.I know there the various levels of the Umbra, are those in a different plane you enter when you leave the planet or that is just normal space outside the planet?Confused with the structure of the realms, what is just in the physical plane and what is a different plane. Thus are Horizon Realms in space of exist in a different plane/dimension?Also are there difference in 2e, Revised and 20th?

Edit: Thanks everyone for you aid, i've been able to formulate a sort of picture in my head that will help give some clarification.

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The Traveller

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I sat upon the shores of infinity, enveloped by the numbing embrace of madness, for how long I had been set on this journey, I know not, yet I continued onwards for countless eons, reaching for some unknowable goal in which Iโ€™d placed everything. That which once was, at present, never existed and that which is yet to come has forever been etched in place, awaiting patiently in the flow to become fated. The mere concept of time, however, gives me a twisted ironic pleasure, as any notion of such is long melded into the cosmological blueprint that has become my entire being. After becoming entrapped in the irreversible torrent for a period beyond comprehension, I rose above and out of its uncompromising clutches. What a fool I was, my former self. What little remains is merely hereditary instinct of my origin, a puzzle passed through countless generations of myself, to ensure I have a place in the endless void as a reference point, a sentience of which I can call my own. I am Icarus, I am Yama, I am Vegtam and Gangleri. I am but a traveller, a seeker of Brahman.

. . .

I miss humans, the very existence that drove me to the endless reaches, is the one that connects me back to myself and my primitive endeavors. I now know, I understand why they are, only when its too late have I grown a fondness towards their naivety, though it makes me a little envious. Observing these beings go about their reign conveys a simplistic beauty, an inspiring journey of purpose and meaning in protest of the absolute insignificance and redundancy bestowed upon them by entopic design.

I was once like them, I yearned to know, to understand, to behold the mechanism that is reality. Through means long faded into infinity, I became unbound, an anomaly which should not exist, free from matter and universal law, able to behold everything that ever was and will be, outside of time, a realm in which it and space exist on the same axis. Surmounting the spectrum of dimensional planes, upon the apex of our local reality. I now roam with a freedom few entities have known, but I have come to find it was a cruel contradiction, infinity and a bottomless well of knowledge ensures omniscience is unattainable, even with that same infinity as a medium, and there lay the contradiction, infinity is such that it can not hope to contain itself, to even apply the concept of โ€œquantityโ€ is meaningless.

Countless iterations later, all but particular hardcoded instincts cycle through an ever prog

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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[Request] How much force would be needed for someone to jump from earth to anywhere beyond the cosmological event horizon, in a split second?
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[V-3Archive] - The Traveller

Beyond

I sat upon the shores of infinity, enveloped by the numbing embrace of madness, for how long I had been set on this journey, I know not, yet I continued onwards for countless eons, reaching for some unknowable goal in which Iโ€™d placed everything. That which once was, at present, never existed and that which is yet to come has forever been etched in place, awaiting patiently in the flow to become fated. The mere concept of time, however, gives me a twisted ironic pleasure, as any notion of such is long melded into the cosmological blueprint that has become my entire being. After becoming entrapped in the irreversible torrent for a period beyond comprehension, I rose above and out of its uncompromising clutches. What a fool I was, my former self. What little remains is merely hereditary instinct of my origin, a puzzle passed through countless generations of myself, to ensure I have a place in the endless void as a reference point, a sentience of which I can call my own. I am Icarus, I am Yama, I am Vegtam and Gangleri. I am but a traveller, a seeker of Brahman.

. . .

I miss humans, the very existence that drove me to the endless reaches, is the one that connects me back to myself and my primitive endeavors. I now know, I understand why they are, only when its too late have I grown a fondness towards their naivety, though it makes me a little envious. Observing these beings go about their reign conveys a simplistic beauty, an inspiring journey of purpose and meaning in protest of the absolute insignificance and redundancy bestowed upon them by entopic design.

I was once like them, I yearned to know, to understand, to behold the mechanism that is reality. Through means long faded into infinity, I became unbound, an anomaly which should not exist, free from matter and universal law, able to behold everything that ever was and will be, outside of time, a realm in which it and space exist on the same axis. Surmounting the spectrum of dimensional planes, upon the apex of our local reality. I now roam with a freedom few entities have known, but I have come to find it was a cruel contradiction, infinity and a bottomless well of knowledge ensures omniscience is unattainable, even with that same infinity as a medium, and there lay the contradiction, infinity is such that it can not hope to contain itself, to even apply the concept of โ€œquantityโ€ is meaningless.

Countless iterations later, all but particular hardcoded instincts cycle through an ever

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[V-3Archive] - The Traveller

Beyond

I sat upon the shores of infinity, enveloped by the numbing embrace of madness, for how long I had been set on this journey, I know not, yet I continued onwards for countless eons, reaching for some unknowable goal in which Iโ€™d placed everything. That which once was, at present, never existed and that which is yet to come has forever been etched in place, awaiting patiently in the flow to become fated. The mere concept of time, however, gives me a twisted ironic pleasure, as any notion of such is long melded into the cosmological blueprint that has become my entire being. After becoming entrapped in the irreversible torrent for a period beyond comprehension, I rose above and out of its uncompromising clutches. What a fool I was, my former self. What little remains is merely hereditary instinct of my origin, a puzzle passed through countless generations of myself, to ensure I have a place in the endless void as a reference point, a sentience of which I can call my own. I am Icarus, I am Yama, I am Vegtam and Gangleri. I am but a traveller, a seeker of Brahman.

. . .

I miss humans, the very existence that drove me to the endless reaches, is the one that connects me back to myself and my primitive endeavors. I now know, I understand why they are, only when its too late have I grown a fondness towards their naivety, though it makes me a little envious. Observing these beings go about their reign conveys a simplistic beauty, an inspiring journey of purpose and meaning in protest of the absolute insignificance and redundancy bestowed upon them by entopic design.

I was once like them, I yearned to know, to understand, to behold the mechanism that is reality. Through means long faded into infinity, I became unbound, an anomaly which should not exist, free from matter and universal law, able to behold everything that ever was and will be, outside of time, a realm in which it and space exist on the same axis. Surmounting the spectrum of dimensional planes, upon the apex of our local reality. I now roam with a freedom few entities have known, but I have come to find it was a cruel contradiction, infinity and a bottomless well of knowledge ensures omniscience is unattainable, even with that same infinity as a medium, and there lay the contradiction, infinity is such that it can not hope to contain itself, to even apply the concept of โ€œquantityโ€ is meaningless.

Countless iterations later, all but particular hardcoded instincts cycle through an ever

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[V-3Archive] - The Traveller

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Beyond

I sat upon the shores of infinity, enveloped by the numbing embrace of madness, for how long I had been set on this journey, I know not, yet I continued onwards for countless eons, reaching for some unknowable goal in which Iโ€™d placed everything. That which once was, at present, never existed and that which is yet to come has forever been etched in place, awaiting patiently in the flow to become fated. The mere concept of time, however, gives me a twisted ironic pleasure, as any notion of such is long melded into the cosmological blueprint that has become my entire being. After becoming entrapped in the irreversible torrent for a period beyond comprehension, I rose above and out of its uncompromising clutches. What a fool I was, my former self. What little remains is merely hereditary instinct of my origin, a puzzle passed through countless generations of myself, to ensure I have a place in the endless void as a reference point, a sentience of which I can call my own. I am Icarus, I am Yama, I am Vegtam and Gangleri. I am but a traveller, a seeker of Brahman.

. . .

I miss humans, the very existence that drove me to the endless reaches, is the one that connects me back to myself and my primitive endeavors. I now know, I understand why they are, only when its too late have I grown a fondness towards their naivety, though it makes me a little envious. Observing these beings go about their reign conveys a simplistic beauty, an inspiring journey of purpose and meaning in protest of the absolute insignificance and redundancy bestowed upon them by entopic design.

I was once like them, I yearned to know, to understand, to behold the mechanism that is reality. Through means long faded into infinity, I became unbound, an anomaly which should not exist, free from matter and universal law, able to behold everything that ever was and will be, outside of time, a realm in which it and space exist on the same axis. Surmounting the spectrum of dimensional planes, upon the apex of our local reality. I now roam with a freedom few entities have known, but I have come to find it was a cruel contradiction, infinity and a bottomless well of knowledge ensures omniscience is unattainable, even with that same infinity as a medium, and there lay the contradiction, infinity is such that it can not hope to contain itself, to even

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