Upvoting because I’ve never seen this
but also I am now sad
But what’s the frame of reference?
The black hole in the centre of the universe.
Where’s the center ?
Ps: i know the answer… this was a joke
Probably where the big bang was, aka the one point all galaxies are getting away from.
Oh boy you’re gonna have good time learning about the formation of spacetime!
I’ll start you off. If space and time didn’t exist before the big bang…
I believe the current theory is that the big bang happened everywhere equally, like a stretch, so there is no specific spot we can point to where it happened.
I wonder if Fido knows how to handle that in his calculations.
Wtf this is terrifying
Is it though?
You’ve died, what’s there to be afraid of? You’re no longer a bag of chemicals what is there to feel?
In the comic you are still conscious. Forever. Not being able to move in any direction, the universe around you slowly drifting away. You will be swallowed by the darkness between the stars for a hundred billion years, all the while fully aware that you are completely and utterly alone with your own thoughts.
I guess. If consciousness alone is that unpleasant to you.
How long was the longest you have been alone with zero sensual input?
How long have you been a wantless senseless immortal spectre?
This implies there’s an absolute center to the universe relative to which the earth moves but spirits do not.
Or you just maintain your velocity at death. With no other forces, that’s the way you head forever
But this character died stationary on the floor. Unless it’s the Earth moving away from her as part of its normal orbit, in which case she’ll get to visit it again soon
No because the sun and the earth are always moving in a line and an orbit in addition to their orbit.
The actual absolute position would resemble a curving helix or something. Nothing in the universe is ever in the same general location twice for our current understanding. Everything is moving.
Not exactly. Things are moving relative to each other, but it really is all relative and local. There’s no central point in the universe that the earth is moving away from. The earth is moving relative to the sun. But relative to you, the earth isn’t moving. Relative to the earth, the sun is moving.
There’s no reason for her to move away from the earth unless she’s being accelerated by something. It’s not like the earth would zip away because it is moving relative to some distant, arbitrary point and she suddenly becomes “stationary”. There’s no universal “stationary”.
I guess where it gets messy is that the earth IS being accelerated to some extent by different things (other planets, the moon, etc). I’m not sure how much. So if she didn’t accelerate along with it at all, it would move away from her.
If she is still affected by gravity, but passes through matter, she would immedietly fall through the floor and start orbiting the earth through the planet.
Without gravity she would no longer follow the earth’s/sun’s/etc. orbit.
Eventually, she stopped thinking.
Is that a JoJo reference
I was expecting to see a trail of ghosts left behind as the earth moves away.
There is the Great Ghost Cluster in the distant void, passing messages up and down its endless stream of ghost bodies in order to log world events at the speed of voice.
This is actually an awesome writing prompt: The older ghosts get updates from the younger ones, and send stories back from their own lives, like a long telephone wire…
That story wouldn’t get to the beginning of the line without being completely changed to be unrecognisable
That feels like practically a feature, when you have an eternity to fill and only a finite number of original stories with which to do so.
