FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.worldtoAsk Science@lemmy.world•What shape would the universe's equivalent of a single pixel of 3D space be?English
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1 year agoSee the other answers for why this isn’t really right, but given 4 dimensional spacetime, if that ‘pixel’ did exist, it would look like a hypercube/tessaract. A constantly stretching and twisting but approximate one, anyway.
I’m reminded of the old saying: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
The same would hold true for any third party who isn’t physically in your presence at the time of need. You are your primary means of defense, with third parties as a backup…