Submitted 1 year ago by KaiReeve@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
If they’re unaffected by gravity, chances are they don’t have mass. If they don’t have mass, they’re not constrained by the Higgs field, which in turn means that they can never move at any velocity below light speed.
Their unfortunate fate is to roam across all of space at the maximum possible velocity in perpetuity.
Their unfortunate fate is to roam across all of space at the maximum possible velocity in perpetuity.
On the other hand, it all happens in an instant to them.
Nah we’re by a catholic cemetery. They definitely have mass. I suggest instead they all fall to the Earth’s Core since learning to ghost fly probably takes more than 80 minutes, and once you’re down in the ghost orgy why leave?
fall to the Earth’s Core
we can save them, but I’ll need a rat, a giant nuclear drill train, and a family of orcas
And experience no time.
Can’t you theoretically just move super fast but across a very small distance? They could just “stay” with the Earth, moving with it as needed, maybe eventually they’d learn to do that automatically as well.
I wanna get off Mr. Bone’s Wild Ride.
Massless light is still affected by gravity, though…
Mass distorts spacetime, which to an outside observer appears to change the direction light travels. The light travels in a straight line.
Gravity doesn’t alter the particle’s trajectory (or ours, for that matter). The warping of spacetime causes our movement through space to point “down” at ~9.8 m/s^2
They would fall through the center of the earth, continue back up through the mantel, pop up momentarily to spook someone on the opposite hemisphere, then repeat the whole trip in reverse with a period of about 40 minutes.
But light isn’t a particle it’s a wave. I mean, just look at it… Oh… Forget it. It’s a particle.
Well that’s just a theory, albeit good, and there’s a good chunk of modern science that refuses to marry it, so let’s not be so sure about it, shall we?
If the spacetime is distorted, and the light no longer appears to travel in a straight line, does that not mean that spacetime itself and the light that travels in are no longer straight?
How can a straight thing be distorted but still be straight?
I had to search for a bit but I finally found this !science_memes@mander.xyz post: mander.xyz/post/3197041
So everyone who ever died spends all eternity consciously drifting in space.
So eventually, the ghosts stopped thinking.
This sounds like it should be the premise of a Doctor Who episode.
I misread this as “goats”
Psh, goats aren’t real
Goats can climb anything, so maybe they climbed all the way into space?
Excuse me sir I am a goat and I resent that statement
Or they’re flung in a straight-line tangent out from Earth’s orbit, like water drops flying off a spinning sponge
An ever expanding fan of souls, bleeding into the dark
Which is why they’re usually just temporary visitors to Earth. The planet is actually passing through them, so they fade in, crying their despair at their lonely fate, and fade back out…
So…we’re flying through a universe filled with ghosts and the appear as we happen upon them as we glide through space. Which is truly fascinating since most ghosts people see appear to be humans or humanoids clad in local clothing from the most recent three centuries of Human fashion. It’s mind boggling to think how many recent-development earths must have passed just in front of us over the billions of years of universe for us to see such spirits.
Either that or there are a lot of liars and hallucinations out there. I know which one of these options I believe in!
Those aren’t the only two possibilities
And the orbit of the earth passes by random groups of ghosts every Day of the Dead, Obon, Halloween’s, or ancestors day in which ever culture there ks
Gives the term “stuck in limbo” a very sad, lonely meaning.
i mean, presuming ghosts can talk to each other there should at least be some company, and they ought to get to see some celestial objects now and then.
and hell at least you have space to stare at, as opposed to the nothingness of limbo
True. Maybe every now and a thousand years, something might happen. Or at least the constant input might be used for purpose.
Still hell though, reduced to being a coordinate in time-space, only observing.
You just made death infinitely more scary
I’m so sorry
If that were true, they’d speed away from us at about 900mph.
Much faster than that, even. The surface of the planet moves at up to ~1000mph relative to the earth’s center of mass, but once you factor in the orbit around the sun, the orbit around the galaxy, and even the galaxy’s motion, you’re looking at miles per second instead of mph.
One article I found when googling this says that measuring relative to the cosmic microwave background, we are moving at 390 km/s.
Relative to what, though? A lot of lore has ghost tied to locations on earth, which are typically fixed places. I guess if there was some kind of astology ghost tied to certain stars it might rocket off in some unexpected way.
Maybe that could be a tool in some exorcist’s bag. Convince a ghost it’s tied to some stars, and trick it into changing its frame of reference.
Are they also inertialess? Being immune to gravity won’t make them just stop; stop, relative to what?
So, they continue in a straight line, while their body moves in rotation with the Earth’s surface × orbit around the sun × orbit around Sagittarius A × whatever movement the Milky Way is making based on the local cluster… I wonder how much angular movement the supercluster is making.
If ghosts are real… then every living thing, cockroach, dogs, fish, fleas, birds, they get ghosts too, billions upon billions of ghosts.
Inb4 they have miniscule but non zero mass, and they’re the actual dark matter
Unless ghosts come from sentience
All the things they listed are sentient.
Maybe you mean they come from sapience?
So if they don’t experience gravity they are made of neither matter nor antimatter.
Rick: “Ok… I need to leave gravity unfinished and make floors finished business.”
oldGregg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Space ghost you say?
Maybe they could have their own talk show. And it could broadcast coast to coast
QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you getting enough oxygen? flex