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Am I missing something or is this article nonsensical? (source: BBC sky at night)
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Am I missing something or is this article nonsensical? (source: BBC sky at night)

"Known as Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole is about 10 billion lightyears from Earth.

Given the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, that means the light we see coming from the supermassive black hole has been travelling across the Galaxy for almost the entirety of cosmic history since the Big Bang."

article link: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/txs-2005403-quasar-turbulence-interstellar-medium

EDIT: looks like someone has gone in and fixed the first sentence which is good... but they left the bit about "travelling across the galaxy" for 10 billion years. Fingers crossed their next edit will fix it

u/Best-Tomorrow-6170 — 8 days ago
▲ 0 r/Collatz

Using Biblical Epistemology to resolve the Collatz conjecture

1. Premise

1.1 There are two types of knowledge:

1.1.a. Knowledge constructed by humanity, we only know the truth of this knowledge in the material world

1.1.b. Biblical knowledge that is true in the material world but is also known to be true in higher plains

1.2 We should therefore focus on the second type of knowledge in order to see the true nature of things

2. Collatz methodology

2.1 We must first determine the highest number confirmed to exist in the Bible. This number is 12.

2.1.a. This comes from Leviticus 24: "Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread..."

2.1.b please note that verse numbers were added by humanity so are not relevant here

3. conclusions and remarks

3.1 Since no numbers above 12 have been confirmed to exist Biblically, we only need to check Collatz trajectories that pertain to numbers less than 12 to study the true nature of the conjecture.

3.2 While I have not yet completed a full study of these values, I believe with some effort it should be possible to rigorously check this range for counter examples to conclusively show if the Collatz is true or false

Addendum: To address a common counter argument to this, I would like to be clear that I am already fully aware that mathematicians have hypothesised that "13" follows 12 and I do understand their rational for doing so; however we don't really have any way to concretely tell whether this is actually true or not, so it can't be relevant to the true nature of the conjecture.

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