Sometimes I think about how the universe can be a profoundly lonely place and yet also hauntingly beautiful

Sometimes I think about how the universe can be a profoundly lonely place and yet also hauntingly beautiful

@erincandescent ooh the involved distances + expansion of the universe eliminating our ability to perceive it?

@erincandescent so we will reach peak observable universe in terms of what is inside that bubble, even if spacewise it will only grow bigger

@desea “peak observable universe” was the big bang. things we once could have seen but now can’t have already drifted outside of our view.

@desea the space of the universe expands uniformly; this means there’s more expansion between us and the most distant reaches of the universe than between us and the closer bits. if you get far enough away, the expansion of space reaches the speed of light; anything beyond that point becomes causally disconnected from us - we cannot see them, they can’t see us, we will never causally interact again

@erincandescent I think I saw a comic with that premise, or at least as part of the worldbuilding