Comment on What if the moon turned into a black hole?

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The series is named ‘What If’, not ‘How Could’.

  /hʌɪpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)l/
  adjective
  adjective: hypothetical
  
      based on or serving as a hypothesis.
      "let us take a hypothetical case"
          supposed but not necessarily real or true.
          "the hypothetical tenth planet"
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          Similar:
          theoretical
  
  speculative
  conjectured
  imagined
  notional
  suppositional
  supposed
  assumed
  presumed
  putative
  made up
  unreal
  academic
  h
  Opposite:
  real
  
          actual
          Logic
          denoting or containing a proposition of the logical form if p then q.
  
  noun
  noun: hypothetical; plural noun: hypotheticals
  
      a hypothetical proposition or statement.
      "officials refuse to discuss military policy except in coy hypotheticals"```
  

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Also, the idea of Randall Munroe of XKCD having to resort to clickbait is hilarious. He’s gotta be in the top 10 most famous scientists alive.

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  • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s not clickbait, that’s you trying hard to be a pedantic ass.

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    • arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It probably got turned into a black hole through the same method everything else happens in this series:

      Magic. In the baseball video he specifies that magic is what causes stuff to happen, after the magic, it’s all normal physics

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• antler@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To you, what is the difference between the moon being turned into a black hole and being replaced by a black hole with the same mass?

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• match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  black holes can also be small, actually, it’s based on a ratio of mass to diameter

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  • RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Ghostie21@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You only need a high enough density of mass to form a black hole. You could take any amount of mass and in theory squeeze it hard enough to produce a black hole.

      The sun is not massive enough for the astrophysical processes to form a black hole, but if you squeezed the sun into a small enough space by some magic it you could form them.

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