Endless torment

good boy
But what's the frame of reference?
- The black hole in the centre of the universe.
Upvoting because I've never seen this
but also I am now sad

Wtf this is terrifying

Is it though?
You've died, what's there to be afraid of? You're no longer a bag of chemicals what is there to feel?
- In the comic you are still conscious. Forever. Not being able to move in any direction, the universe around you slowly drifting away. You will be swallowed by the darkness between the stars for a hundred billion years, all the while fully aware that you are completely and utterly alone with your own thoughts.

Eventually, she stopped thinking.

Is that a JoJo reference

I don't like this

to be a little pedantic, if you take in account the rate of expansion of the universe, and take as a truth that the ghost stays stationary in spacetime, earth would disappear in an instant

The spirit is already moving at the same speed and in the same direction as the earth when it exits the body.
- That's a fair point. So then one might expect the ghost to continue their motion tangential to the orbit of the earth, and so they'll float away.
  However, the theory of general relativity suggests that gravity isn't really like other forces. It doesn't push or pull anything at all; but rather its bends the fabric of time and space. Objects 'falling' due to gravity, or 'in orbit' around a planet are actually moving in a direct straight line in curved space-time. And this is why gravity still applies to massless objects such as light. So then, I'd say the ghost would still be affected by gravity - and that their main concern would be falling into the earth rather than drifting away.
- 😆 this comment really amused me, i guess the basic physics plus ghosts in the same matter-of-fact statement
which is all the more terrifying
Would that not depend on your inertial frame? Like isn't the entire concept of being stationary relative to spacetime not an actual thing? I'm not trying to be pedantic, BTW, I literally don't know the answer to my question.

I was expecting to see a trail of ghosts left behind as the earth moves away.

There is the Great Ghost Cluster in the distant void, passing messages up and down its endless stream of ghost bodies in order to log world events at the speed of voice.
- This is actually an awesome writing prompt: The older ghosts get updates from the younger ones, and send stories back from their own lives, like a long telephone wire..

This implies there's an absolute center to the universe relative to which the earth moves but spirits do not.

Or you just maintain your velocity at death. With no other forces, that's the way you head forever
- But this character died stationary on the floor. Unless it's the Earth moving away from her as part of its normal orbit, in which case she'll get to visit it again soon

Nothing is as terrifying as SpaceEngine.

Frankly. This… software rearranged my brain and changed me fundamentally.

There are no words to describe being lost in the 10^27 of space. It’s just too much, you will go insane and if you survive you will lose the ability to talk with people.

It's anxiety inducing in VR, so fucking cool
I don't know if I want to try this or not now

I always thought it funny that traditional ghosts can go through walls but are held up by the floor. Finally some consistency.

Thank you, just what I need. More existential horror. 💀👍🏻

Should be a comet trail of ghosts drifting behind the Earth. She wouldn’t be alone.

They would be pretty far apart though

Odd how they chose gravity, but not the fact the earth is both rotating and revolving around the sun. Even more than that, the entire solar system is revolving around the center of our galaxy.

The way I interpreted it, is that gravity normally holds you on Earth despite all the effects you listed, and gravity not affecting this ghost, that's the problem.
The effect of rotation is visible in the first two pictures, she is floating sideways.

loses mind

gains ultimate power

becomes Azathoth:

"the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws"

If you do certain types of drugs or meditation you can get that out of body illusion.

I always thought it was fun to imagine you are an immortal being and you get to walk around pranking people like jumping in front of a train but just bounce off or eating a sandwich with bleach but you are perfectly ok then one day the sun balloons and eventually the earth gets destroyed and you are wisked away then eventually trapped in the gravity well of a brown dwarf star and get sucked to the center for trillions of years.

With the death rate I feel like it wouldn't be that lonely

Space is a lot bigger than the death rate.
- Yeah but you're likely to die around the same time as another person. As long as you can float as fast as you could run, im sure you'd eventually find a partner....

ITT: people thinking way too hard about a comic

What if a ghost is affected by gravity but not other "fundamental" force in the standard model? This will raise a lot of interesting questions. Is... ghost dark matter?

Finally billions of years without social interactions.

Being alone is not torment to everyone

This isn't just being alone. This is being in a black void for an incomprehensible amount of time.
- And that is being alone. No stimulus whatsoever

So do they just maintain their initial velocity or would we have a chance to discover the static reference velocity of the universe?

Also they would still be affected by gravity if they still exist in space. Gravity is not a force that pulls objects together. It is merely the act of going straight in curved space. Either they are in that space and they are going to move along it within the shape of that space or they are not in that space. Though really if they just moved in a straight line with no external forces they are going to be subterranean because a real straight line in our space is down.

We're talking about ghosts here, we don't know what laws they follow. That said, either you are right or they would be miles far from earth before being able to finish that first sentence.

So ghosts consist of mass?

I mean clearly not since gravity isn't affecting her

Eventually, Kars stopped thinking

So there's just a long ass trail of ghosts floating in space?

At least some sections would be heavily populated....