Can Vernor Vinge please spend just one day not being right about everything?
fifticon · 39m ago
I think he is dead, there is little he can do now?
wiml · 27m ago
Dang. I hadn't heard. RIP.
Gualdrapo · 1h ago
> Instead, the basis of the timescape model is that, in fact, we see in the universe around us today that there are giant cosmic structures, enormous filaments and walls filled with galaxies and galaxy clusters. And in between those filaments and walls we have giant voids of nothing.
Could explain we haven't found life elsewhere?
chneu · 35m ago
Who says we haven't?
We have absolutely no real idea what life will look like.
What if there are already organisms that are so large or small that we just can't comprehend them?
Also, the universe is likely so large that we'll never encounter life like us.
exe34 · 28m ago
> Could explain we haven't found life elsewhere?
Or maybe we just haven't looked very far at all.
XorNot · 1h ago
The scale here is "thousands of galaxies".
The problem with where's the other life is already enormous due to the size of our one galaxy.
monkeycantype · 1h ago
If it’s all a swirling spinning turbulent mess is there enough difference in relative velocity that we’ve had more or less time since the Big Bang than other places?
monkeycantype · 1h ago
Finishing off above question…
Is that What this model is suggesting or is the uneven distribution of mass contributing too?
scotty79 · 15m ago
I think the idea is mostly about the distribution of mass influencing time flow.
Could explain we haven't found life elsewhere?
We have absolutely no real idea what life will look like.
What if there are already organisms that are so large or small that we just can't comprehend them?
Also, the universe is likely so large that we'll never encounter life like us.
Or maybe we just haven't looked very far at all.
The problem with where's the other life is already enormous due to the size of our one galaxy.
Is that What this model is suggesting or is the uneven distribution of mass contributing too?