3223: Inflation Timeline
| Inflation Timeline |
 Title text: Depending what corners of the internet you hang out on, 'regular' may at times awkwardly coexist with 'sexy.' |
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Cosmic inflation is the theory that the universe expanded at an exponential rate during a fraction of the second after the big bang. This explains the "clumpiness" of the early universe, which is necessary to explain the formation of large-scale structures (e.g. galaxies) as the universe evolved.
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- [Caption:] Timeline of Inflation
- [A log scale timeline marked by "Age of the Universe (Seconds)" at each factor of 1010, ranging from 10-40 to 1020. A bar labeled "Cosmic" begins off-panel to the left and continues up to roughly 10-32 seconds. A second, much thinner bar labeled "Regular" covers another period between roughly 1016 and 1018 seconds.]
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What about the regular/sexy thing? -- 2a02:26f7:e344:4000:c000::f (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_inflation 155.33.87.241 19:14, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
- I would say this is an application of the "today's lucky 10,000" concept, but this probably doesn't qualify as a thing that everyone knows by the time they're an adult so the number is probably lower. But I hope this experience of learning something new is still as fun as Coke and Mentos! Dextrous Fred (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
- Not so sure closing this gap in knowledge would really count as "lucky", but each to their own. 204.77.3.72 00:07, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- definitely not a sentence i expected to read on xkcd. raeb 05:33, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- Not so sure closing this gap in knowledge would really count as "lucky", but each to their own. 204.77.3.72 00:07, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- Since economic inflation is money becoming more worthless and therefore de-facto vanishing, it would be better represented by body deflation. That is - character becoming increasingly more gaunt and skinny, until only pile of bones remain (or if cartoonish, until he becomes thinner than fishing line and collapses into a point). Dunno what sort of weirdo would use images of starving people (e.g. victims of nazi death camps) for sexual gratification. --User 8496351 (talk) 07:56, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- Economic inflation is "more units of money needed for the same product/service", so entirely in line with "a need for more apparent body mass/volume of the same person" (e.g. BBLs, etc). At least as I understand both processes, which I may not entirely. 82.132.237.186 11:47, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- Well, I've obviously led a sheltered the last seventy years as I've never heard of body inflation.--2A00:23CC:D248:8901:D030:98E4:E22B:D2EF 08:56, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- New to me too. But further proof of Rule 34 :-) 2A12:F43:143E:0:C172:A03D:12FE:51AA 11:36, 24 March 2026 (UTC)dww-uk
- I would say this is an application of the "today's lucky 10,000" concept, but this probably doesn't qualify as a thing that everyone knows by the time they're an adult so the number is probably lower. But I hope this experience of learning something new is still as fun as Coke and Mentos! Dextrous Fred (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
The X axis is weird. The labeled ticks are logarithmic, but the unlabeled ticks are linear, and there are only 8 of them.Jp5424 (talk) 18:18, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- The X axis most likely has a logarithmic base interval of 10/8, going from 10^-40 to 10^-38.75, 10^-37.5, etc. 2001:1C02:1A9D:9700:2416:3C14:B648:3FD0 19:12, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
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