• Swedneck
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    2 months ago

    but the question is what would determine the trajectory then, there is no universal arbitrary straight line, that’s a concept that just doesn’t make sense under physics as we know it.

    Even massless particles gain an effective mass and thus interact with gravity/spacetime; according to everything we’ve observed and calculated so far the only sensible result is acting like light does, and weakly interacting with gravity.

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      2 months ago

      Well, yea, idk how moving through spacetime without following it’s curvature would makes any sense. Which is what gravity is. Meaning the comic makes no sense.

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        2 months ago

        Meaning the comic makes no sense.

        Holy shit, you’re right.

        What the absolute fuck OP

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          I thought we were so close to solving it too. Too bad it’s all a scam. A malicious lie made to trick the foolish.