• btaf45@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I don’t know shit and everything I thought I was right about is probably wrong

    Almost everyone once thought the big bang was the beginning of everything and started from a singularity. Now we know that there never was any singularity and that cosmic inflation preceded and set up the big bang.

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      2 years ago

      I didn’t realize our theories have changed regarding this. Do you have a good source for an idiot like me?

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      2 years ago

      Now it *looks like.

      It really feels like a game of forced perspective, in a very literal sense. I think it was prior to Edwin Hubble that we thought certain fuzzy blobs in the sky were nebulae, until the type 1a supernova discovery tweaked our angle of view, the fuzzy blobs turned out to be distant galaxies in their own right, and suddenly the whole damn universe got deeper.

      Space is a jerk. It’s my favorite. MOAR secrets, pls