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minus-squareDefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoThe curvature of spacetime does wild shit to how you would expect physics to work. If you want to fall into a gravity well, you have to slow down or you’ll just slingshot past it.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThis sounds an awful lot like the the idea that you can never actually catch up to anything because all you can ever do is close the distance by half.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThis sounds an awful lot like the the idea that you can never actually catch up to anything because all you can ever do is close the distance by half.
The curvature of spacetime does wild shit to how you would expect physics to work. If you want to fall into a gravity well, you have to slow down or you’ll just slingshot past it.
This sounds an awful lot like the the idea that you can never actually catch up to anything because all you can ever do is close the distance by half.
This sounds an awful lot like the the idea that you can never actually catch up to anything because all you can ever do is close the distance by half.