tr14l

tr14l t1_j93idn9 wrote

Gaslighting is telling someone something is true when it isn't, or isn't true when it is. The effect is basically to convince not to trust their own perception. This term comes from an old play in which a husband continually adjusted the gas-fueled lamps in their house to be dimmer and dimmer over time. His wife would complain about it and he would lie and say they were as bright as they'd ever been. The effect was to make her think she was crazy.

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tr14l t1_j29eoax wrote

You just have to travel to the region of the world that tree grows on! Then, hope you don't get shot by the owner of said tree! Six days and 3800 miles later, you have yourself mango! Now, time to go milk the cow, harvest the other ingredients like sugar, mine for the salt, and i can finally make mango yogurt! Ah shit, the mango went bad during all my travelling and harvesting and farming.

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tr14l t1_j26izk8 wrote

We're not SUPER sure exactly, but it's kind of like how your phone needs to turn off to update. I would imagine your brain rewiring things significantly while you're awake would get REALLY weird.

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tr14l t1_j1dp6eg wrote

Some observations: the masses of celestial objects are all moving away from each other, as if expanding. If they are moving away from each other, it's a pretty good assumption that, if we were to rewind that, at one point, they were all together.

Measuring the velocity with which they are moving is easy enough. So, coming up with a model for rewinding that (and how long that would take) is actually not the most complicated thing in the world. If we were to "rewind" it, it would take ~14 billion years. Of course, there may be some variables that effect that age, but most of the biggest ones (gravity, expansion, etc) are fairly easily observed and accounted for. So it is unlikely based off current observations that we are trillions of years off. Millions perhaps, but that's fairly small.

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