niktemadur

@niktemadur@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3141: Mantle Model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of how an observer is inextricably intertwined with the object/particle being observed, as part of the framework for the equations to flow, so to speak.

  Then there’s the fact that Newton’s equations assume an infinite speed of light, until physicists of the 19th century that pinned it down, then Einstein established it as a constant.
  If you try and use lightspeed at the atomic level, many values blow up to infinity, the math stops working, the answers become like static.

  Recently I found out that Schrödinger’s famous equation is written in the framework of classical, newtonian physics, not in quantum terms. Like using a star screwdriver to flat screws, yet it seems to do an admirable job up to a point. And you have a whole lot of infinities to sweep under the rug and ignore, what is it called, Normalization or Renormalization? One of the two.

  It’s all incredibly complex and abstract, the numbers being measured by the guys in the lab were strange to the point of absurd, and if you think it’s weird for us now, imagine how they saw it then.

  So yeah, the math says that the observer is not passive from afar, the observer is part of the equation itself of what is trying to be measured.
  Then the closer you look, the blurrier things get, like a greased pig you can’t get it to hold still, not even for an instant, particularly at the smaller scales, things don’t behave the way they do at our sensory and mental level. Things behaving as if going backwards through time. Particles and anti-particles popping in and out of existence. Particles transforming into other particles. Particles going through walls. The list goes on and on and on.

  Weird stuff has to be conjured up to try and make any sense of this.
  Light or electrons as amplitudes of probability waves. Axes of imaginary numbers, eigenvalues in Hilbert spaces, wave-particle duality, etc.

  Reality is extraordinary, it will keep on always surpassing our expectations and imaginations. It just keeps on happening this way, wherever we poke at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck you in particular⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But must you must face the Captcha test to prove that you are, in fact, not Anish Kapoor.

  Meanwhile Kapoor, not using a VPN - “Curses! Foiled again!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You must not NOSN’T!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that you mention it, there was an old shoe repairman in my town, among other knickknacks he had a piggy bank on a shelf, but it was like a bust of JFK, and the coin slot was right where Oswald supposedly “acted alone”.

  But le charlee kercke is like scraping the bottom of the barrel on that political and cultural scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So what does one do with such items? Is there a collector’s market for merch sold on the grounds upon whence le charley kirke died like he despicably preached for others not himself?

  “It’s the tee-shirts and caps from where there was a shooting! Somewhere in 'Murica!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because somebody had to wipe that smug retrograde smirk off his face, that’s why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE LEFT JUST DESTROYED THIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, that kid on the lower right corner looks like Harrison Ford!
  One quarter Jewish… not too shabby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He will encounter British Flyes! He will have to learn how to buzz around CRISPS and SCONES now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And who did the cat ask to relay the message? Vigner’s friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it do, think about it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking pizza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So as not to “bruise the cheese”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Angry Man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back to back Bond!

  For Your Eye Only
  Monopussy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad palaeo noises⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take the giant fungi forests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A great find⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you open it up…
  and the whole damn thing has lines and paragraphs underlined with markers in different colors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird based storage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You might need a murder of crows for that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨job position⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s the shaman?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguably, there’s a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn’t seem like one.

  Wanna bet that whoever latches onto the image to jam their lazy uninformed truthiness (as Stephen Colbert coined the term) narrative into, uses the same kind of lazy uninformed truthiness narrative
  bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe MuH pURiTeH
  to not vote and empower the goose-stepping fascist goons into the federal government and into their communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨crypto investment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ritzcoin?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But then there’s the guy who added all the mass and energy of the observable universe, calculated its’ Schwarzschild Radius, and came up with 13.8 billion light years.

  There’s also how our observable universe’s Hubble Horizon acts like a black hole event horizon, the way in which even the speed of light is insufficient to escape beyond.

  A lot of the math inside a black hole is eerily similar to the math of our own horizon, as traced by the age of the universe plus the speed of light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Coldplay actually sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Coldplay is for people who think they enjoy high art because they watch period costume dramas about the Victorian Age. Because that’s what high art is, isn’t it? Stuffy settings and dialogue, delivered in a bygone accent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨salty child⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Take it one level lower on down, when you’re the size of an electron, orbitals are wild, turbulent places, sometimes sharing electrons which also often get zapped by light, so they jump to a higher orbital, then they randomly spit out that photon and reappear back down… all the orbitals of a molecule violently jiggling all the time.

  Take photosynthesis. Simply put and to oversimplify but it’s essentially accurate, a photon hits an electron bullseye in a leaf molecule, which sets off a wave of energy in motion, breaking up molecules, reassembling them into sugars and waste product (oxygen).
  A red photon raises an electron one orbital up, that sets off one process at a certain level of energy. A blue photon raises an electron two orbitals up, that sets off another process at twice the energy level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  T H I C C Mitochondria!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the cave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was originally a Warhol idea, wasn’t it?
  A six hour film of the Empire State building, as the day goes and the lighting changes, I think it was meant as like a window from an apartment or office right in the thick of Manhattan.

  Truth be told, I don’t hate the idea. Currently, it could be a framed digital screen on a loop, or showing a webcam feed. Why not a live view of Istanbul, or of the Moroccan desert?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t you please tell us how you really feel?
  The burn is so hot, it’s gonna cost several thousand in ER fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you wish there was a way to quit enabling these shit-kickin’ shitheads. To let them actually live what they preach, in isolation without their shitwater splashing and spilling around everywhere else.

  None of their politicians asking for handouts behind closed doors and under the table, too embarrassed to admit to the voters that yes, indeed, a collective government IS extremely useful AND convenient when you need it the most, and not only when YOU need it but also when OTHERS need it, too.

  But one might as well try and explain quantum mechanics to a goddamned brick wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s sooooo funny… it’s heeeeeeel-larious! I don’t know about you, but I for one can’t stop laughing!

  The way language is used or abused creates patterns in the mind.
  I strongly suspect that this way of using language is not healthy at all, for an individual nor for a community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then there is also all those mediocre non-voters who empowered by default the motivated-by-hysteria, toxic dregs of society, up and down Main St. and deep within their communities and suburbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not for me, tho⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What time is it?
  It’s Beer O’clock!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was all a lie, wasn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wainscoting. Sounds like… a little Dorset village. Wainscoting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't tell me what to do.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …unless you heat them up first, to kill the bacteria; two minutes on HIGH ought to do it.