Why tf is it flat

"why" isn't science
"how" is

>Implications of a flat universe:
>The universe will not recollapse, nor will it expand too rapidly to tear itself apart. Instead, it will expand forever, but at a gradually accelerating rate (due to dark energy).
It's over... It's OVER!

Flat spacetime is unperturbed spacetime. Since matterenergy is seemingly the only thing that perturbs spacetime, most of spacetime is unperturbed.

>>16704608
this meme is so dumb. it's the same question whether you write why or how

>>16704613
ESL?

>>16704610
>DESI's recent survey of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations seem to hint that dark energy evolves with time
Phatom Goatse Rip bros...we ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!

>>16704604 (OP)
>fields can be something other than uniform for a given observer
wooooow who would have guessed you could add by something other than 1.

>>16704739
aww shit it's Hubble's constant going up that would make a big rip (involves phantom dark energy (??)), not a variable dark energy value. Everyone go home, false alarm

>>16704608
Except of course when you ask questions like why do massive bodies orbit each other or why do we see colors, then you can just say because of gravitational attraction or the electromagnetic spectrum allows many frequencies of light to share the same space and we view the intensity differences as colors.

>>16704717
Yes, that is exactly what every native english speaker assumes when they hear someone else say retarded shit like science can't answer why questions.

>>16704611
There's no such thing as spacetime devoid of mass and energy.

Minkowski space still has zero point energy. Even when you sheer the vacuum through a symmetry breaking event, W and Z bosons magically appear out of nowhere to suture the vacuum decay from actualizing nonlocal nothingness

>>16704608
>I don't care why the room chirps
>but I can tell you how it chirps
>I can give you the precise frequency at which it chirps
>the source of the chirp is the domain of philosophy, not science

>>16704604 (OP)
>attempting to evaluate curvature with in universe measurements
They're going about it wrong and have proven nothing. Turns out questioning your constants is too painful, and you can't actually test them without leaving Earth.

>>16706019
What he means is that there is no need to put existence to the sword. Physical phenomena just .. exist. Deal with it, or suck my big black cock.

>>16704739
why would you want the big rip?

>>16706199
Better than the Heat Death

>>16704604 (OP)
because inflation smoothed out all the wrinkles
2^90 is one hell of an expansion factor

>>16704608
>WHY ARE MY BALLS ON FUCKING FIRE!

>One does not ask "why", but "how".

>>16706351
lmao