Q&A: When Will the Big Rip Happen and more...
In this QA episode, Fraser wonders when the Big Rip might happen, could there be binary galaxies, what it would be like to live in higher gravity.
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Question for the show!! As said in an earlier episode, "The actions of light and particles are dictated by probability." Is it possible that it's not probability that is determining how light acts but rather certainty? (Stay with me here) If light experiences no time, it would mean time breaks down at the speed of light, therefore this would also mean it experiences all time? In the slit screen experiment, light would know whether to behave like a particle or a wave because it already has. Light would be all knowing in a sense and isn’t reactive to probability, rather, it is certain of how to behave because it’s always acted in this particular way at this particular time. Meaning, light lives a deterministic existence. Meaning, we live a deterministic existence. Lol. Not sure if I was able to get this out in an understandable manner.
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22 Billion years? That sounds awfully short.
I have a plan if I were to go to Mars to counter the lesser gravity. Drink more beer, put on more weight and, I think I should be good.
In re: space craft pics, your questioner could look for videos of SpaceX's Dragon or the Soyuz Progress modules approaching/leaving the ISS from the POV of the station, in addition to the ground-based photography you mentioned. Also, the last SpaceX launch took place under absurdly amazing photographic conditions which allowed ground cameras to watch the rocket CONTINUOUSLY from launch, to MECO & 1st stage separation, then followed that same 1st stage all the way back to the ground. Finally, if satellites in space/orbit were not actually a thing, then Iridium flares (e.g.) would not be a thing either. In other words, if these satellites did not exist in the way they "supposedly" do, there'd be no way of predicting them in advance (as sites like www.heavens-above.com do), then going out & looking up at the appointed geographically-dependent place & time to see said predicted event. Cheers!
At my house the big rip occurs about 60 minutes after my father finishes eating.