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Michael Kazarnowicz<p>I can’t wrap my head around the implications of the <a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/AndromedaParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AndromedaParadox</span></a>. </p><p>Say that a very advanced civilization (Kardashev type 3) in the Milky Way decide to do something like JWST, but on a galactic scale: a star-system large telescope array just outside the edge of the galaxy with the goal to capture an image of the Andromeda Galaxy with resolution down to continents on planets.</p><p>1/x</p><p><a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/AndromedaParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AndromedaParadox</span></a> <a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/theoreticalphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theoreticalphysics</span></a> <a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a></p>
Michael Kazarnowicz<p>I'm really sad to learn that Sabine Hossenfelder has fallen into some weird alt-right adjacent territory. It's a good reminder that nobody is immune to becoming an addict to others' attention, no matter how smart.</p><p>I watched her explanation on the Andromeda Paradox, but I don't want to give her any traffic, so here's an imho better explanation that shows the math of it (also delightfully modest and functional in the visuals) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpiVmSY7-v0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=NpiVmSY7-v</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/AndromedaParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AndromedaParadox</span></a> <a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/theoreticalphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theoreticalphysics</span></a> <a href="https://unstraight.club/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a></p>
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p>Misunderstanding relativity.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Rx6ePSFdk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=i7Rx6ePSFdk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Penrose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Penrose</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AndromedaParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AndromedaParadox</span></a></p>