Physical Absurdities

Something anyone competent enough at math will discover is that whatever is analyzed mathematically ends up becoming absurd. If you shoot a bullet up at the moon (or at the dragon eating the sun, as recently happened) it will strike the Earth. As absurd as that seems, it is easily demonstrable. Ballistics isn't just mathematical trickery, but how objects in motion do act.

Ok, you say, so if I am unhappy about the absurdity of ballistics and want to cease participating in the absurd universe, all I have to do is aim perfectly straight up and gravity will eventually turn the bullet back at me, and I'll shoot myself. But noooooo. That isn't what happens at all. Even if there's not the slightest breeze to blow the bullet off course - which, of course, is what happens in the real world - the Earth is spinning so fast that in ~24 hours the entire circumference of the planet is traversed by the point where you stand and aim your bullet, so you will spin madly away from the point at which you fired the bullet, during the time it takes for it to fall back down, some distance, and will miss you. If you fire a bullet that will take ~24 hours to fall back down, well, that bullet is too fast to fall back down at all, and even the fact that we're (Earth and everything on it) traveling along an orbital path as we spin won't even matter. If you just toss a heavy rock up, however, it will fall right back down on you. At the scale at which we can affect sticks and rocks manually everything makes perfect sense.

Orbital mechanics is a kind of ballistics, a mathematical description of objects in motion, that Newton described a few centuries ago. While his observations and math showed him that each and every object with mass attracted each and every other object with mass, he was perplexed that this force of attraction was somehow exerted across a vacuum, which he found absurd. Newton was an incomparable genius that independently invented the mathematical language necessary to his calculations, calculus, and his insights and brilliant understanding of the heavens were suitably admired and believed for centuries.

However, a clerk in a patent office that failed the university coursework in math completely refuted the genius Newton, and upended the cosmology and physics all his professors had learned and failed at teaching him. Einsteinian orbital mechanics interposed a kind of medium across which the force of gravity was conveyed - spacetime - through geometrical deformation of that medium in the presence of mass. Worse, there are credible accusations Einstein himself plagiarized his revolution in physics, which really brings the circus of absurdity into view in the center ring, as it were.

Popular science vlogger Veritasium illustrates just how absurd physics can get in this video, which I happily recommend to any and all with an interest in physics, black holes, space, time, spacetime, and absurdities. Einstein-Rosen Bridges, white holes, parallel universes, falling into - and out of - black holes, and more are all touched on in the video, which also notes that the mathematical solutions to Einstein's equations require dividing by zero, which you can't do. As far as math goes, dividing by zero is full retardation. Don't do it. Don't try this at home. Leave dividing by zero to the trained professionals that make a living coming up with ever more absurd cosmological explanations.

IMG source - Odysee.com/@veritasium - orbital mechanics says this is falling straight down

The reality that spacetime isn't static, which is how we perceive it, is provably true, and our senses lie to us because they didn't evolve to understand orbital mechanics, but mere ballistics of things propelled by hand, sticks and rocks, flung at prey in the hopes of gaining dinner, in which all this spinning and contraction don't come into play at all. We aren't designed to perceive the breadth of the universe as it is, but only that part of it we can affect with sticks and rocks manually, which demonstrates that scale really matters. Not only that, but we perceive space and time quite distinctly from each other, not as the actual web of reality they are - it is - as spacetime. This demonstrates just how absurd physics is from our human perspective, as our senses have evolved to lie to us in the most useful manner, regarding our daily supper, and this innate understanding we have of the reality we are in is quickly belied at other scales, whether too small or too large to be seen with Mark I eyeballs.

The bigger and badder the sticks and rocks we throw at each other become, the more absurd ballistics - and politics - become. I enjoy having my perspective twisted and warped by trained professionals, and Veritasium makes an admirable run at it. Have a look that you might become deranged enough this absurd universe makes sense to you.