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Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember asking my teacher why you could see the moon during the day and my teacher told me you couldn’t.

  This too left me very confused, because I had seen the moon that very morning from the school yard.

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  • evranch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Last year my daughter told me her grade 4 teacher had told the class “Well nobody really knows how magnets work” to which my science-obsessed daughter replied “You mean you don’t really know how magnets work!”

    I confirmed to her that yes, our understanding of magnetism is about as complete as it can get. Of all the mysteries the universe has to offer, magnetism is not one of them.

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    • wedeworps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What that teacher probably wanted to say was that, while we can explain how magnetism works, no one can tell you why it happens.

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      • venoft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nature doesn’t have a reason to do things. There’s no ‘why’ in anything, other than ‘the laws of physics make it do so’.

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      • gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Feynman on magnets and these kind of questions.

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    • jasondj@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      4th grade seems to be about the right maturity level to become a huge ICP fan, so it checks out.

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    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s just that magnetism is really complicated the deeper you go, and there’s nothing else to compare it to.

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    • DroneRights@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t wanna talk to no scientists

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re just lyin’, and getting me pissed

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fun fact: next time you see the moon in the day, study the angle of the sunlight hitting it — it doesn’t appear to line up with the sun. This is a perspective trick based on the fact the sun is way further away than the moon yet we perceive them the same distance. And no I cannot intuitively grasp this.

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    • uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It has to do with apparent size of the sun and moon. The sun is 400 times wider than the moon and coincidentally 400 times further away, so they look the same size. With no other reference points as to how big each object thing is, we perceive them to be the same distance.

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      • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That bit I can at least fully comprehend. It’s the sunlight angle thing I can’t wrap my head around.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stupid/inconstant adults stick in your mind. I’m lucky to have mostly had good teachers, just one teaching vowels one week taught us a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y

    Then the next week tested our learning, and marked my answer “a, e, i, o, u, sometimes y” wrong because it’s only aeiou. Sure teacher. No vowels at all in by, but the same sound at the beginning of bicycle has one.

    I think they must have been reading from a book when teaching, but working from their own ideas for the test

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• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m curious how that person thought that butterflies rested… Or did they just continually flap their tiny little wings until they died?

  But, I mean, you were at a church…

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