“Cold death of the universe theory always spooks me.
It’s eerie and depressing.”
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Updated 11 months ago,May 30, 2024
Theres nothing scarier than science.
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These theories fromAsk Redditprove that.
Almost half a million infected cows entered the food chain but only a few hundred cases have been reported.
buttwarm
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As far as we can tell, both hemispheres are conscious beings with hopes and dreams.
Other times, both hemispheres can speak.
Split brain patients dont notice nor particularly care that they are split brained.
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Neither hemisphere seems perturbed by the separation.
Verbally, split brain patients say they cant even tell.
What does that mean about our everyday existence?
What does that mean of our perception of ourselves as a coherent consciousness?
Do we really communicate so little with ourselves that we wouldnt feel the sudden separation of half of us?
What else about ourselves might we not even notice?
ishaan123
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If thats true, then 85% of the matter in the universe could be strange matter.
On its own, the theory just sounds mildly interesting.
In fact, its utterly terrifying in its implications.
The bigger a given strange mass is, the hardier it is, so to speak.
It gets worse, though.
Remember how I mentioned some physicists theorize that strange matter makes up dark matter?
Well, have you heard ofThe Great Attractor?
We have very little idea what it actually is, but we can see its effects.
There are numerous theories on the anomaly, with some being a little bit more reasonable than others.
(Dont say Cthulhu.)
In other words, it might only be a matter of time before the entire universe is converted.
Wouldnt that be strange?
RamsesThePigeon
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Skeletonman420
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Dying of Huntingtons disease is beyond painful
Huntingtons disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system.
Think Alzheimers but way worse.
Its basically a genetic disorder that causes rapidly progressing dementia.
It usually presents after age 50.
This is after childbearing age, so its basically immune to natural selection against it.
It usually runs in families, but doesnt have to.
Anyone reading this could have it and not realize.
Dying of Hintingtons or similar diseases is also miserable.
People asphyxiate because they forget how to breathe.
bunks_things
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But we have observed stars that have weaker magnetic fields than the Sun that exhibit superflares.
The largest solar flare that we have recorded wasthe carrington event.
That was only 1/10,000 the energy of the largest known superflares.
If one were to happen, the effects are pretty grim.
Im talking about 0.1 1000s of kiloton explosions.
Most explode high up in the atmosphere and are harmless.
Imagine something like that happening in a modern metropole.
And we have no way of stopping it.
Bananedraad
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The cold death of the universe is spooky
Cold death of the universe theory always spooks me.
Its eerie and depressing.
Monochrome_Cosmonaut
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Since they are so difficult to detect, we have only found around a couple thousand of them.
There are most likely hundreds of millions if not billions of comets in our solar system.
By then, it would be about 6 months out from impacting us.
There is absolutely nothing we could do to stop it in 6 months.
Im talking global climate change and possible extinction of our species.
A comet impact would be vastly more devastating than the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
OsamaBinLolling
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There is a theory about Quantum Suicide
Quantum Suicide/Quantum Immortality.
The idea that we never really die in our perspective.
But we die in the original universe.
BarbaraCripps
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This knocks the adjacent space down with it.
Tethalamin
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One machine could cause all of our deaths
Grey goo.
This is somewhat similar to the strange matter mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but technological.
A microscopic machine that is programmed to break down matter and reorganize it into copies of itself.
A sufficiently advanced machine could replicate itself from common materials and multiply at an exponential rate.
This could happen accidentally.
A scientist in the future could make a nanobot with a nasty software bug.
A hostile alien race could use it to wipe out human civilization safely and quickly.
Given enough time, goo could travel interstellar or even intergalactic distances.
And all it takes is one to doom every living thing on the planet.
bunks_things
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HitchikersPie
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Some theorize based on geological historical data it causes global extinction in the space of asingle human lifetime.
You remember those massive holes in the ground in siberia that turned out to be methane vents?
The methane gasing up from the arctic ocean which led a climatonolist to literally saywere fucked?
and the melting permafrost also releasing a bunch of methane as well as ancient diseases?
Were in fucking trouble guys.
usernumber36
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Although its unlikely considering the scale is logarithmic, boy thats spooky.
Smiis
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The many worlds theory means there are unlimited parallel universes
The many worlds theory.
So with that theory, there is basically an infinite amount of parallel universes.
shoodpawoop9900
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You arent actually touching the things you feel
Everything is 99.999999999%* nothing.
If you were to truly touch something youd set off an atomic explosion.
OMA_
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So the last thing you see before your die will be your own terrified face.
romeo_the_wolf
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Generic engineering could cause a silent plague
Genetic engineering now is getting good.
Like, really good.
CRISPR is a new technique that is a great way to edit the DNA of microorganisms.
Scientists can breed bacteria to produce certain useful substances, like antibodies or insulin.
They can also theoretically produce viruses that could edit the DNA of human cells.
Imagine an out of control infectious agent that changes our DNA in unpredictable ways.
There are dozens of other ethical problems, from designer babies to socio-economics.
Also, rememeber Mendel and his pea plants and squares?
Well, genetics dont quite work that way.
Some bioengineers figure that they can irradiate mosquitoes within five years of initial introduction.
Thats great, right?
No more malaria or west Nile.
But what if someone did the same to us?
It wont take that many generations for most of humanity to be infected.
bunks_things
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There is a philosophy called Determinism
This is more a philosophical theory than scientific, but well… Determinism.
Illusions, my friend, everything is decided by the atoms, and we have no control at all.
SephyJR
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Autoimmune encephalitis like your bodys immune system attacking your brain and some cases cause just psychosis.
So patients are taken to psychiatric hospitals and put on antipsychotic medications.
But actually need different types of medication to return basically back to normal functioning (non psychotic) person.
lolcatloljk
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TheMillionthSam
