Everyone has something they can’t stop themselves from nerding out over - but often it’s hard to find people to talk to about it. So go ahead, share your interests, and tell us about them!

  • Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    The idea of time. It’s insane to me to think about events happening at different times in different places. Or for the same event to take different amounts of time depending on your reference points.

    The sun is 8 minutes away from us, so we are looking at it 8 minutes in the past. If it were to suddenly disappear, it would take 8 minutes for us to find out. That’s mine-blowing to me! It’s like the past, present, and future are all happening at the same time.

    Nobody cares to humor me when I bring the topic up lol

    • sep@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      So facinating, even gravity is affected by those 8 minutes. Iow we would rotate around a missing sun, for 8 minutes, same as with light.
      This is all also related to relativity, that someone else wanted to talk about in this post, i am just saying ;)