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  • They asked for physical pain, so psychosomatic likely doesn’t count. Not that they’re uninteresting topics or anything…

    I used to have similar “pain” from trying to imagine the scale of things. Like when I was a young teen, I’d try to literally visualize what a mile of terrain looked like, or the insanely small scale of molecules, and suddenly I’d lose reference to what ‘normal’ scale was, and it’d freak me out completely when it felt like the room I was in was both miniscule and insanely vast.

    Not really pain, but extreme discomfort that you cannot make go away. There’s a term for losing ones’ frame of reference for scale, but it escapes me at the moment. Luckily, I got better and better at visualizing things and vast scales stopped triggering what ever that was. Some people have it as a general disability and ohhh boy do I not envy them!










  • Because they are not, in fact, older than the universe. That is literally, definitionally impossible.

    The age of objects are derrived from simplified equations that proximate real-world phenomina. They’re mathematical models, not absolute facts. When an object appears to be “older than the universe”, it can mean many specific things, like the acceleration of the expansion of the universe changes over time when most mathematical models do not account for that. It could mean the object is simply further away than we expect to be able to see. It could mean it’s simply traveling away from us in some uniquely fast way.

    Basically, it means the mathematical model used to derive how “old” the object is, is likely wrong in some way, or that the measurements taken may have inaccurate results, both of which are absolutely and wholly normal for science. Again, they’re mathematical models, based on measured observation, not absolute universal truths. There are many, many, many ways data can both be gathered incorrectly or analyzed incorrectly, not even requiring anyone to make a mistake. Science at the fringe of knowledge is very difficult, and requires rigerous testing and validation before it should be trusted. NEVER trust clickbait BS, especially if it’s not directly from a scientist’s mouth.

    We already know our mathematical models are inaccurate in several ways (see dark matter and dark energy for the obvious ones). We just need to figure out how and why they are wrong.





  • No, it crops up plenty often when many of the big enemies who actually trigger the fight progression can soak up an entire set of an ammo type without dying.

    Sure, there was usually plenty of options to eventually get back to slaying, but the point is you had to play a meta game of managing your ammo and weapons when by the game’s lore itself, the doom slayer is supposed to be a raging unstoppable beast.

    It’s not about things literally becoming impossible, but the absolute interruption to “ripping and tearing” if you had even a momentary lapse of playing the meta game.



  • You’re just ignorantly wrong on that one. Way to completely fail to learn the lessons of MLK Jr. A person very much interested in being kind to others.

    "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

    and many other quotes with a similar glint. How was his kindness rewarded? (hint: he was murdered in front of his own house) Evil people DO NOT deserve kindness. Even Jesus went whipping up on shitheads trying to turn a profit in the church.

    Only a complete fool willing to sit by and watch the world burn allows terrible people to march around with torches to set things alight.





  • The entire reason the particles can come in to existance is because the black hole curves spacetime enough to ‘eat’ one of the pair. It only exists because of the black hole. The particle leaving the black hole takes energy away because that area of spacetime now has less energy in it, meaning the black hole shrinks. The black hole isn’t magically adding energy to the space around it in order to create these pairs.

    If you throw a ball away from you, yes you feel the force, but now you’ve sent a bunch of energy away from yourself in the ball. In effect, the black hole is ‘throwing’ particles away from itself by the simple act of eating part of the spawned particles.

    I’ve explained it poorly, but PBS Spacetime has several great episodes on the specific phenominon.