• Davel23@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    In this context “money” is shorthand for resources. He’s not talking about literal coins and banknotes.

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      1 year ago

      So then he, an astronomer, has a basic misunderstanding of the amount of resources the universe holds. I’m guessing that isn’t the case and he means money.

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        He is trying to word a message that can be understood by people who don’t know enough about science to understand how much energy it takes to move a tiny bit matter to lightspeed, or that we still don’t have a theory for faster than lightspeed travel that doesn’t break the known properties of the universe.

        He wasn’t speaking literally about money.