There’s a middle-aged guy I know with a degree in physics ‘n’ shit, and every single text he sends me finishes with the ol’ 😂 or 🤣 flourish. Which with unreasonable intensity annoys the hell out of me.

Because neutrons are what you get when an electron and a proton love each other very very much…

What occurs to me now that you put it that way, is from way back during the very early days of galactic formation, when so much hydrogen gas got blasted by radiation (was that caused by Population I stars?), stripping the electron away and leaving most of the hydrogen ionized - a fancy way of saying “lone protons floating in space”.

Now what would happen if some ionized hydrogen clouds happened to collapse into massive stars during this window of time, before the universe became re-ionized? Massive stars with mostly protons and very few electrons?

Is this a valid hypothetical object? Then if it collapses under it’s own proton weight, where are you going to get the electrons to merge with the protons to transform into neutrons?

Ouchies

GODDAMN, JIMMY!

I’m gonna make y’all uncomfortable from muscle memory with another caption:
No internet, waiting for the ISP tech guy to arrive.

I would have gone sideways and said “Willem Dafoe”!

I can’t hear it. I can, however, smell it. Intensely.
It may be the acid kicking in, though.

It’s narcissism.
“Look at me! I am at the center of the end of time!”

Exactly like the evangelical wingnuts with their “I am living n the last generation and the rapture is imminent yadda yadda yadda… I’m special!”

Freedum moisturr!

Centurion Haddock in the times of Elagabalus.

EDIT: Hadocus?

Yep, this is the one I was scrolling down to find.

Godfather.
Godfather 2.
The Conversation.
Dog Day Afternoon.
The Deer Hunter.

All five Best Picture Oscar nominees, three winners.

Echoes of - “The internet is not a dump truck, it’s a series of tubes”.

Refusal to cancel attacks on Ukraine and democracies worldwide shows kremlin does not want peace.

Have you ever noticed that you never see Clark Table and Supertable in the same room at the same time?

Holy shit!

Plot twist: there is no direct evidence that Twain ever said such a quote. Which is very fitting for this meme, its’ very point itself.

Gotta admit I’m tempted by the fusion, and in the spirit of it, to steer the concept further away from a European style, I’d pair it with matcha ice cream.

Thank you! You got what I was trying to ask, but I didn’t know exactly how to put it into words.

Put another way, now that you have landed on the number I was missing:
Each elastic yardstick of 41 million light years, has stretched to 45.5 billion light years, and it took 13.7 billion years to do it. Trying to visualize this type of abstract math borders on the surreal.
EDIT: maybe something like this famous dolly zoom?

But wait, there’s more…!
I’ve heard it said often, in print and video, that inflation took the universe from subatomic size to the size of an orange, or to the size of the solar system, or even several light years, in an instant. That’s quite an error range in the narratives.

But when the CMB flashed, what we call the visible universe was barely 380,000 years old, but already 41 million light years across. And the geometry of it seems flat, so if it is actually curved, it must be have been gigantically larger than that already.

Like I said, trying to visualize this borders on the surreal for a fragile primate mind barely out of the grassy steppes, in a much more placid place and time of the life of the cosmos.

Like a fish DMT trip?

Last seen in 1980

Right around the time when the so-called “greatest” generation and the silent generation electorally told liberal Democrats to go fuck themselves and die, over several consecutive elections in which the baby boomers sleepwalked just like all the non-voting idiots of today.