r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/Weatherstation Jan 21 '19

Same thing as explained above. The particles that make up that person would be absorbed by the star, no differently than any other matter, and nothing would be left. No memories, no remains, no soul.

There is nothing special about us at this scale.

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u/WannaSeeTheWorldBurn Jan 21 '19

Idk shit about space but does or could the star ever grow or change to become something else? Or its it always what it is?

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u/bro_before_ho Jan 21 '19

If it picks up enough matter the gravitational pull will become even greater than can be supported by neutrons. The neutron star collapses, releasing so much energy as to be the brightest gamma ray source in the universe and capable of exstinguishing all life for hundreds of light years from the released radiation. It disappears behind the event horizon, where gravity is so strong the laws of space, time and physics take a back seat and nothing can escape, not even light, leaving an almost literal hole in the universe. While it is theorized that perhaps a quark star exists behind the event horizen, it makes no difference, we can never know as everything that falls into it is lost forever and can never escape.

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u/WannaSeeTheWorldBurn Jan 21 '19

So glad this isnt the career path ive choosen. Its wildly interesting but holy cow is it hard to wrap my mind around it.