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Upvoting because I've never seen this
but also I am now sad
But what's the frame of reference?
good boy
I don't like this
I was expecting to see a trail of ghosts left behind as the earth moves away.
There is the Great Ghost Cluster in the distant void, passing messages up and down its endless stream of ghost bodies in order to log world events at the speed of voice.
This is actually an awesome writing prompt: The older ghosts get updates from the younger ones, and send stories back from their own lives, like a long telephone wire..
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to be a little pedantic, if you take in account the rate of expansion of the universe, and take as a truth that the ghost stays stationary in spacetime, earth would disappear in an instant
The spirit is already moving at the same speed and in the same direction as the earth when it exits the body.
That's a fair point. So then one might expect the ghost to continue their motion tangential to the orbit of the earth, and so they'll float away.
However, the theory of general relativity suggests that gravity isn't really like other forces. It doesn't push or pull anything at all; but rather its bends the fabric of time and space. Objects 'falling' due to gravity, or 'in orbit' around a planet are actually moving in a direct straight line in curved space-time. And this is why gravity still applies to massless objects such as light. So then, I'd say the ghost would still be affected by gravity - and that their main concern would be falling into the earth rather than drifting away.
π this comment really amused me, i guess the basic physics plus ghosts in the same matter-of-fact statement
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This implies there's an absolute center to the universe relative to which the earth moves but spirits do not.
Or you just maintain your velocity at death. With no other forces, that's the way you head forever
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There absolutely is a coordinate system like that, in the comic it would be the spirit's coordinate system with them at the center. There actually is an absolute center of the universe and it is you and me, and everything else in the universe is at the center of it's universe (depending on your definition of the universe). That's what special relativity is all about, each thing is at the center of it's own universe and you have to translate any measurements between coordinate systems.
All the comic implies is that a sprit doesn't follow null geodesics, but that's general relativity.
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Nothing is as terrifying as SpaceEngine.
Frankly. This⦠software rearranged my brain and changed me fundamentally.
There are no words to describe being lost in the 10^27 of space. Itβs just too much, you will go insane and if you survive you will lose the ability to talk with people, lose every single thing that you thought matters. You will be alone even in the busiest of places, some part of you forever stuck in the 10^27 of emptiness between Galaxy Groups.
This isnβt a joke. Ignorance is bliss
It's anxiety inducing in VR, so fucking cool
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I always thought it funny that traditional ghosts can go through walls but are held up by the floor. Finally some consistency.
They're just behaving as they've been taught ghosts are supposed to behave.
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So there's just a long ass trail of ghosts floating in space?
At least some sections would be heavily populated....
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Should be a comet trail of ghosts drifting behind the Earth. She wouldnβt be alone.
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Odd how they chose gravity, but not the fact the earth is both rotating and revolving around the sun. Even more than that, the entire solar system is revolving around the center of our galaxy.
The way I interpreted it, is that gravity normally holds you on Earth despite all the effects you listed, and gravity not affecting this ghost, that's the problem.
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The effect of rotation is visible in the first two pictures, she is floating sideways.
I always thought it was fun to imagine you are an immortal being and you get to walk around pranking people like jumping in front of a train but just bounce off or eating a sandwich with bleach but you are perfectly ok then one day the sun balloons and eventually the earth gets destroyed and you are wisked away then eventually trapped in the gravity well of a brown dwarf star and get sucked to the center for trillions of years.
With the death rate I feel like it wouldn't be that lonely
Space is a lot bigger than the death rate.
Yeah but you're likely to die around the same time as another person. As long as you can float as fast as you could run, im sure you'd eventually find a partner....
Assuming you float based on your last interaction with the matter before death, you would float off slowly in some random direction. So, while at first many would be near, you would eventually diverge into the nothing.
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This was an unfortunate way to start my day
ITT: people thinking way too hard about a comic
you know its a good comic when it makes people think too hard about it
It is always a good time for some philosophy
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Eventually, Kars stopped thinking
loses mind
gains ultimate power
becomes Azathoth:
"the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws"
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