:sicko-yes:

92 points

In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

permalink
report
reply
-6 points

That series has huge Elon musk energy

permalink
report
parent
reply
35 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply
31 points

I always liked the books, I don’t even know or care if they’re reactionary, they’re just nice dumb entertainment lol

permalink
report
parent
reply

It always struck me as more jestfully misanthropic than outright reactionary. Very strong “Humanity is a comically dumb civilization in a galaxy filled with comically dumb civilizations” energy. It’s not over the top though. If anything, it is very cynically liberal.

I enjoyed the series quite a bit.

permalink
report
parent
reply
48 points
*

God I hate these garbage click bait titles in popsci media…

permalink
report
reply
40 points

What are you talking about its totally good practice to make a scientist’s jokey remark the title of the article, and of course you also have to shoe-horn in a reference to Star Trek to keep the hogs interested.

permalink
report
parent
reply
26 points
*

It’s so annoying because it makes people who don’t know much about science read these articles and think that physics is about being stoned with your friends and coming up with Jaden Smith type quotes.

That or dumb priests and creationists take the quotes and say “see this? Scientists say the universe shouldn’t exist! THAT MEANS EVERYTHING IN THE BIBLE IS TRUE SOMEHOW!”.

permalink
report
parent
reply
30 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
reply
30 points

For a second there I read that as “University shouldn’t exist” like this scientist was advocating for un-schooling

permalink
report
reply
17 points
*

Honestly, same. I was kinda disappointed. But it’s cool that the “how is there any unannihilated matter?” still needs more research. Imagine living in a universe with no mysteries left - that sounds hellish.

permalink
report
parent
reply
17 points

Imagine living in a universe with no mysteries left - that sounds hellish.

Yah know people say that, but maybe I’m just a bore but I don’t exactly fancy myself some big epic explorer, I’m a pretty chill guy.

If the answer to life, the universe and everything was found tomorrow I assume I could still drink beer and watch anime and go for bike rides and other shit I like doing. I don’t think the existential dread of scientists being bored would bother me personally that much. As for the scientists, idk maybe take up home brewing or some shit?

permalink
report
parent
reply
28 points

CERN Physicists: “Universe shouldn’t exist.”

Capitalists: “We’re working on it.”

permalink
report
reply

science

!science@hexbear.net

Create post

Welcome to Hexbear’s science community!

Subscribe to see posts about research and scientific coverage of current events

No distasteful shitposting, pseudoscience, or COVID-19 misinformation.

Community stats

  • 411

    Monthly active users

  • 1.6K

    Posts

  • 36K

    Comments