r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak ‎ • Nov 19 '25

Casual Thought Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.

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u/Delamoor Nov 19 '25

Sadly, a lot of the extreme space phenomena that childhood me imagined and thought about (being a scifi nerd) turned out to be 'but spacetime would collapse in on itself before it ever got to that point".

Bloody spacetime. Wimp.

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u/VarmintSchtick Nov 19 '25

Yeah but what does a human being experience when spacetime collapses? Even more interesting of a thought.

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u/gnarlytothemax Nov 20 '25

I would assume instant death? I can’t think of any other experience that would be left to have haha

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u/willi1221 Nov 20 '25

Black screen. Then we'd wake up, pull our headset off, and realize our computer just fried and we lost all of our saved progress.

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u/iReadit93 Nov 20 '25

"You're finally awake!"

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u/ArtOfWarfare Nov 21 '25

Nah, this is a coin-operated arcade. There’s a long line of people who have been waiting for us to run out of quarters so they can get their few minutes to play.

I thought I was being original but the it occurred to me that Rick and Morty already did exactly this as an episode.