• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      The series is named ‘What If’, not ‘How Could’.

      hypothetical
      /hʌɪpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)l/
      adjective: hypothetical
          based on or serving as a hypothesis.
          "let us take a hypothetical case"
      
          supposed but not necessarily real or true.
          "the hypothetical tenth planet"
          
          Similar:
          theoretical
          speculative
          conjectured
          imagined
          notional
          suppositional
          supposed
          assumed
          presumed
          putative
          made up
          unreal
          academic
      
          Opposite:
          real
          actual
          Logic denoting or containing a proposition of the logical form if p then q.
      
      noun
      noun: hypothetical; plural noun: hypotheticals
      
          a hypothetical proposition or statement.
          "officials refuse to discuss military policy except in coy hypotheticals"
      
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      Also, the idea of Randall Munroe of XKCD having to resort to clickbait is hilarious. He’s gotta be in the top 10 most famous scientists alive.

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      To you, what is the difference between the moon being turned into a black hole and being replaced by a black hole with the same mass?

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      black holes can also be small, actually, it’s based on a ratio of mass to diameter

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          You only need a high enough density of mass to form a black hole. You could take any amount of mass and in theory squeeze it hard enough to produce a black hole.

          The sun is not massive enough for the astrophysical processes to form a black hole, but if you squeezed the sun into a small enough space by some magic it you could form them.