How have humans gone from the Stone Age to being able to manipulate subatomic particles in just a few thousand years?
And it’s not just normal subatomic particles. My mind is kind of blown when I think about this.
Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder
Submitted 1 day ago by Domino@quokk.au to technology@lemmy.world
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neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 23 hours ago
And likewise in a time with such a strong pushback against knowledge, science, and innovation… Oh the things humanity could achieve without these destructive forces!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Granted, you now can no longer know the momentum. But it’s all you can think about. You eagerly dive deeply into Heisenberg’s detractors, desperate to find a solution. For months you learn more about the quantum world than you ever wished to in multiple lifetimes. It starts to bleed over into your everyday life. You start doing the mental calculus to make sure everything you order when eating out comes to $33.13 just so you have an excuse to tip Planck’s constant. Your sex life begins to suffer as you try to argue “it’s both erect and flaccid!” As you contort your penis and/or labia majora into a roughly sinusoidal wave function. No one at work cares about your ramblings about how no two customers can share the same account because of the Pauline diversification principle.
But then it happens, you finally understand. Something about the unintuitive has become nothing more than simply logical to you.
At first the understanding was enough.
Then you became restless.
How could you put this knowledge into actionable good for the world?
It starts slowly. You first notice the street lights while driving. Not lit ones turning off, but blinking and burnt ones suddenly start to grow bright as if they were replaced in those femtoseconds it took your neurons to notice the change.
You begin to wonder what else you can possibly manipulate.
While in this magnanimous day dream, you begin to see yourself not entirely unlike the fictional Dr. Manhattan. You see yourself bringing peace and prosperity to the world.
Could you create such a future? Are you capable of resisting the inevitable intoxicating draw that kinda power would grant you?
Your thoughts are suddenly silenced for the first time in years as you are blind sided by a semi truck cause you ran a red light lost in your day dream.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
then you open your eyes after hearing a girls voice.
“Onii-chan! wake up! we have to go to the magical school for the gifted!”
all is right in the world.
OpticalAccount@aussie.zone 1 day ago
AGI and simulated reasoning would have figured this out. /s
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The antimatter trap has a allu foil hat.
MBech@feddit.dk 1 day ago
I love shit like that.
We have this incredibly expensive machine that was made by incredible engineers and scientists who spent an ungodly amount of hours on it. And their solution to some kind of problem with the machine, was to wrap a part in kitchengrade alu-foil, probably from the employee kitchen.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 day ago
Aluminum foil is very common in physics labs. And a main use for it is “baking”! To get ultra high vacuum (UHV)* you generally need to “bake out” your chamber while you pump down.
Sadly, it’s usually not food grade aluminum foil, as that can contain oils, and oils and vacuum are generally a big no-no.
*Just how good is UHV? Roughly: I live in San Francisco, which is ~7 miles by ~7 miles (~11km). Imagine you raise that by another 7 miles to make a cube. Now, evacuate every last molecule of gas out of it. Now take a family sedan’s trunk, fill it with 1 atmosphere of gas, and release that into the 7 mile cube. That’s roughly UHV pressure.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The Voyager spacecrafts had some of their wires wrapped in, cleaned, store bought aluminum foil after a last minute change in the expected environment around Jupiter.