This is just Vulcan writing

For anyone considering watching: despite the name and this meme, not really a car movie. I enjoyed it (even if Clint singing over the closing credits is a bit much)

Whilst I’ve heard this idea said plenty of times by scientists as a way of demystifying the double slit and similar experiments, it doesn’t really do justice to the weirdness of the quantum world.

Firstly in the “default” interpretation there’s no mechanism or explanation for how an observation causes wavefunction collapse, it’s just a rule that it just does that. And the collapse doesn’t correspond to a change in momentum of a particle or any other change in classical physical state, but something else entirely.

In the double slit experiment a detector at one slit somehow seems to affect the particle as it leaves the source, before it reaches the detector (so the effect is backwards in time!) And without the detector it goes through both slits at once.

A mixture of mercury and bromine makes for a funny kind of water

Am I weird for actually wanting to use this out of nostalgia? I distinctly remember thinking at the time that the gradients on the window bars were the coolest thing ever, especially because you could configure them to be whatever wacky colours you wanted.

At the risk of explaining what everyone here already gets: I like how the bottom picture could literally be a diagram of a 4-way deadlock where the buses are threads of execution and the roundabout exits are object locks.

Whereas in top picture there are no passengers and I’m fairly sure the buses aren’t moving. Which probably says something about the state of the documentation

They must be thinking of this person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b-wTJ8x3E

Congrats! Nice that there is some fediverse software among the recipients too

I have a grain of crack here for those who are interested.

You don’t need to do many calculations to see that the AI has gone slightly wrong. Since water covers roughly twice as much of the Earth’s surface as land does, lowering the oceans 1 inch should raise the land by about 2 inches, assuming that the volume of dirt isn’t changed by the process of moving it.

More precisely: Area of the oceans = 361,000,000 km²
1 inch = 2.54cm = 0.0000254 km
Volume of dirt = 361000000 * 0.0000254 = 9169.4 km³
Area of land on Earth = 149,000,000 km²
Height of dirt spread over land = 9169.4 / 149000000 = 0.0000615 km = 6.15 cm = 2.4 inches

Not going to say how many Everests as estimates for the volume of Everest seem to be all over the place. But the point stands that it’s a huge amount of material making the idea somewhat impractical.

Wow this is impressive for a first attempt! I take it this is andromeda? What equipment did you use?

we have assumed that Rex is comprised of a uniform nucleon fluid, with protons, neutrons and electrons in an idealised 1:8:1 ratio

This is how the author is estimating it, they are assuming 1/9th of the mass is protons. No idea how good that assumption is though, there is a source which doesn’t look the most convincing

After reading I realised that this proposal isn’t a single new element for all neutron stars, but a separate new entry on the table for every individual neutron star in existence, unless there are two that happen to have the exact same number of protons which is unlikely. Sounds good to me

I got to rule 11 before giving up. Surely someone can do better?

“Attraction” seems close. Theme parks and water parks are relatively modern inventions which might be why the etymology isn’t really helping. I’m curious what you mean when you say park is poisoned though?

Off topic but I think the lyric is bathroom floor, bathroom door could turn it into a slightly different story

This was my first thought as well, sadly I’m probably not clever enough to fully appreciate and understand any of these people. If I’m not allowed to transfer my place then at least I can have some fun telling Da Vinci about planes and stuff

Who else has done exactly this before on Gilly in Kerbal Space Program?

Strange how much higher the top one, 123456, is than the others, and how the most popular ones with repeating numbers also have 6 digits. Why do people like 6 digits so much more than 5 or 7?

Unfortunately yes. I’ve met people who ask chatgpt about absolutely everything such as what to have for dinner. It’s a bit sad honestly

This is interesting because the most “realistic” (i.e. still not realistic) depictions of time travel in fiction involve travelling through a singularity or wormhole. So you probably have to be in space to start with, but also both ends of the wormhole have mass so they can be orbiting a planet or star and stay within a stable distance of it. It solves this particular problem (just leaving the other usual problem of causality!) It also proves your point since it does allow travelling in space, in fact it allows travelling faster than light.

I think the converse is true as well, that if faster than light travel is possible then time travel must be possible, at least if you take relativity at face value. As others have pointed out there’s no universal reference frame, and for any journey that is faster than light in one reference frame, there is another frame in which the journey goes backwards in time.