Assuming this new planet was intended for human use, best place would be same orbit as Earth but on the other side of the sun.

This might be a repost

This made my day. Thanks for being such an awesome person. Great job too.

Some also suspect there are neutrinos still ripping about from the big bang, but we won't be able to intelligently detect and interpret those any time soon.

Nope.

Here's a thought experiment that might help explain the issue:

Imagine if you can, an infinite universe that is ALSO infinitely dense. So all of the energy in this universe is crushed down into an infinitely dense point, but this point is also infinite in length in every direction.

Now imagine that ALL of that energy suddenly expands outwards in all directions across all of infinity, becoming significantly less dense in an instant. As the energy decreases in density and temperature it begins to condense into matter. But again, this happens everywhere at the same time across this entire infinite universe. We just happen to be somewhere within all of that.

We don't know if that's what has actually happened but it's one possibility and hopefully gives you an idea of how we can't identify a center or starting point for the big bang. As far as we can tell, the big bang happened everywhere.

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Tell me you don't know the meaning of "anecdotal" without telling me you don't know the meaning of "anecdotal"

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LOLZ!

I interpreted the comment I responded to as meaning the study was anecdotal, but I see now that they meant the anti-vaxxers' tweets were anecdotal.

I had contemplated adding another line to my comment like:

>a scientific study is the exact opposite of anecdotal

but didn't because my response seemed sufficient as is. OOPS!

Now people think I'M the anti-vaxxer!

Nope. There's no atmosphere to buffer temperatures and transfer excess heat to colder areas. You are either in the direct path of the super intense electromagnetic radiation streaming from the sun, or you are standing in a cold vacuum.

Or it's a Mandalorian helmet on its side

IKR! Had to read the title a couple of times to make sure I was interpreting it right

If anyone has watched any of the early seasons of that tv show Alone (currently on prime video) Josef Bay is about 30km north of the general area that show was filmed.

Picks up banana... bites off Marilyn Monroe's feet

But it's also peer reviewed and if results are not reproducible then those results are ultimately discarded, especially when better science comes along.

Wow... ok... I link to a couple of articles (could have linked more) where physicists discuss the possibility that the thing we call the "laws of physics" may not be as immutable as once thought and you respond with:

>the laws of physics are absolute to our entire observable universe thus far

You realize that we don't even know what 95%+ of the universe even is right? These "laws of physics" you are so certain about only explain 4-5% of the matter/energy we are aware of.

I think I'll take the opinion of a well known physicist like Sean Carroll over some guy on Reddit.

Right, what he implied wouldn't happen but I was referring to things like this: https://www.science.org/content/article/are-laws-physics-changing

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/are-the-laws-of-physics-really-universal/

and not just the consolidation of the fundamental forces.

Exact opposite. We are absolute miracles. We are so lucky to have the awareness to experience this. Too many people are buried under their ego's self obsession and miss out on that fact.

As far as we can determine yes, but we are not positive. There have been speculations that some of the "constants" have even changed over time since the big bang, which could have ramifications with regards to inflation, etc

ya... apparently to drown the children!

Love it! Favourite painting of yours I've seen.