Pyryn
Pyryn t1_j9xx1fr wrote
You're aware that Blockbuster turned down the offer to purchase Netflix for $50 Million right? Or that Sears had a $16 BILLION market cap in 2007, with a current market cap in 2023 of about $41 MILLION in 2023?
People are inherently incapable of comprehending large-scale paradigm shifts. Or, change - at all, really, unless hit in the face with it at 300mph. See: climate change.
Don't take offense to it OP; just understand that human beings, caught up in hubris, ego, and denial, are grossly incapable of acknowledging events that may suggest anything related to a change in what they've grown accustomed to, unless hit in the face with it so hard they wake up with their face in a different room.
Here's a video of a guy drinking actual vegetable oil to drive home the point: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/11bc573/idiot_drinks_whole_bottle_of_vegetable_oil/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Pyryn t1_jedsxbh wrote
Reply to comment by Pegajace in ELi5 If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? by cashmoneyhash
I feel like this has to be a pretty clear argument for there being at least 4 spatial dimensions. The production of new "space/universe" essentially from...."nowhere." Reminds me of the idea of if a 3 dimensional sphere were to pass through a 2 dimensional space, to the 2 dimensional observer - this sphere would simply be a slice (or really, a line - to them) that simply goes from nothing, to smaller, to larger, to smaller, then back to nothing - all without the two dimensional observer ever having an awareness as to even the idea that the object they're witnessing essentially "appear out of thin air, then disappear" exists within 3 dimensions.
The production of new "space/universe" being generated everywhere across the universe, at all times, to me - would mean an expectation that this added space is coming into existence from a 4 dimensional (spatial) existence. If new "space" were being generated from a central locus, then perhaps something else - but the whole "everything, everywhere, all at once" aspect really has me imagining only that its production must be borne of a 4th dimensional space.
If that's irrational or if there are theories stronger than that - please let me know, but intuitively it's the only thing that would make sense (when considering the idea of imagining a 3 dimensional object in a 2 dimensional space, which would appear, under those conditions, exactly the way we view the view the expansion of spacetime in 3 dimensions)