Do you or have you ever use thought experiments to some practical end?

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    You discounted space dust.

    No I didn’t — it would thermalize and radiate.

    This is not my paradox, and it’s not really a paradox at all, as the big bang model explains it nicely. There are many nice articles on the topic of you’d like to read more about it.

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      2 days ago

      I’m not trying to disprove you or anything, I know it’s not your paradox. Apologies that it came off that way.

      But like a tiny flake of space dust is enough to eclipse a sun for us a near infinite distance away. Matter is not going to let light through it. Even if some space dust thermalizes and radiates. The chances something like an asteroid, planet, moon, etc. Is high. Space seems mostly void, but an infinite amount of mostly void is still a lot of stuff.

      I’ll check then out!