#ticktectonics

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For the past several weeks my insomnia has been kicking my ass. Tonight I actually went to bed at a decent hour, slept on and off for the past few hours and then suddenly woke up knowing cosmic mysteries. Good news is I'm coining a new term for something science has yet to discover is a problem. I woke up with this just kind of playing in my head like a fever dream.

"Ticktectonics is a term for the yet to be discovered dilation of relativistic time caused by gravitational waves and other large scale cosmic events. The vastness of this scale makes it hard to comprehend that the relative time for locations scattered along this large area may have drifted in accordance with areas more heavily affected by those events.

Like it's name sake, plate tectonics, we are not observing reality and this phenomenon at a scale that would let us see Pangea split. And just as continental plates drift by forces so large we can't comprehend them with the naked eye, ticktectonics is the gradual drift of nanoseconds into seconds into centuries on a scale that makes our little continental plates seem meaningless."

I don't know why these ideas come screaming into my mind while half asleep. And I wasn't sure if I should post it here or on my scifi writing blog, but I figured more people might find the idea interesting here. Anyway, I'm going to try to go back to sleep lol

#not witchcraft #maybe actually science? #I'm too tired to try and figure out if this could be a real phenomenon or not #either way i love the term ticktectonics and when some physicist finds its a thing i want them to know that #some witch on the internet who also is really into science and math came up with the perfect term #ticktectonics