Black holes are so fucking cool. Fuck it, space is so fucking cool.
Today in astronomy class we learned about time dilation and the curvature of space and dude that shit is so interesting.
Did you know that the closer you get to moving at light speed, the slower time moves around you? How flippin awesome is that. It doesn’t even make any fucking sense! Earth logic only applies to Earth and it’s so stupidly cool to see an application of that concept.
Space curves. Woah, I know, that’s crazy. But matter displaces space, makes it curve around that matter. I can’t even conceptionalise this on a three dimensional scale! The only example I could possibly give is using a flat surface.
Basically, picture a trampoline. When there’s nothing on it, it’s flat. When you put something on it’s surface, that object sinks into it, displaces the space of the trampoline. Confused yet? Great! Here’s a picture:
How ridiculously cool is that? And did you know that gravity effects light? Crazy, right?!
God this stuff is so freaking cool, please excuse the educational rant post I’m just so excited.
Tldr; space is cool and if anyone would like to teach me about the curvature of space on a three dimensional scale, hit me up because I have no fucking clue how that works!
Thanks for listening to me go off on a tangent about one of my favourite topics 😘