Space expands like bread expands, everywhere all at once. Your galaxies are like raisins in that bread. The space around them is carrying them while it expands. This means it’s pretty much guaranteed, you’ll eventually be gaining distance from all other galaxies faster than the speed of light. Because the distance isn’t a function of speed, but growth — so it can go faster than c. You, however, can never go faster than c. So, the picture is right.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just invent wormholes to access hyperspace, and cross the universe in one step

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think you want to deal with wormhole TSA, friend.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You go through TSA at the space ports before boarding the ship. The only thing different about going through a wormhole is a bit of turbulence, some spaghettification, and the unverifiable possibility that the physical organism which gets reconstituted on the other side is merely an empty vessel programmed to unconsciously imitate your habits and mannerisms, while the conscious entity that is you actually perished upon the dissolution of your original body.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

unverifiable possibility that the physical organism which gets reconstituted on the other side is merely an empty vessel programmed to unconsciously imitate your habits and mannerisms

Oh yeah, I’ve tried anesthesia before.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is that a theory about anesthesia? I haven't heard about that.

I'm referring to ideas about teleportation and time travel, in which the physical organism dissolves and is reconstituted, and appears to be alive and conscious on the other side, but the actual conscious entity died upon dissolution and was not resurrected upon reconstitution.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 minutes ago

Yes, it’s a very similar idea with anesthesia. It uses the same regard for self as being something more than just a meat bag in motion. Anesthesia is understood as a reversible suppression of consciousness, memory, sensation, and awareness. If consciousness completely disappears, how do we know the subjective “you” that wakes up is identical to the one that went under?