Larry David and David Mitchell in David and David

If I have one like it's because @luzenlaselva.bsky.social is on bsky

full frontal lobe@ratfan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

They're transvestigating the chicken from Moana

I bet if you told, say, the ancient Greeks that actually lead is really toxic and then told them we also invented/discovered something way more dangerous called radiation, and then you told them lead protects you from radiation they'd be like OH COME ON

if you're not heavily in credit card debt to finance your crypto investments, you're a cuck. sorry

They're transvestigating the chicken from Moana

Back here after a long hiatus because just as the children crave the mines I apparently crave an unfiltered never ending stream of strangers' opinions

I'm gonna do some little deep dive threads into the Unruh effect and quantum field theory in general. I want to try convert the maths into words for max accessibility but also try avoid making it sound too vague and fanciful. Probably super easy to do. Anyway follow if this sounds cool to you! 🧪

full frontal lobe@ratfan.bsky.social · last yr.

The Unruh effect is a prediction in quantum field theory that an accelerating thermometer in empty space without any other contribution to its temperature, will record a non-zero temperature, just from its acceleration, due to quantum vacuum fluctuations. 🧪

Hopefully I don't get sued for reproducing this but it really is one of the most informative bits of text about quantum mechanics I have come across, from Carroll's 'An Introduction to General Relativity'. 🧪

"Without understanding the physics, mathematics does not answer your questions. Without understanding the mathematics, your physics theories will not work successfully either, is what we had to discover (and we keep forgetting time and again)." - ’t Hooft arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05007 🧪

@sonyacotton.bsky.social yay hello

"I think, therefore the cosmological constant must be very small." - Leonard Susskind in 'The Cosmic Landscape' summing up the Anthropic Principle 🧪

Is it socially acceptable to cold email a professor just to be like hey your work is inspiring and I wanted to be able to tell you that

an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i .

Alt: The character bilbo Baggins from lord of the rings holding the ring and saying with a covetous expression, 'after all why shouldn't I?'

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This spacetime diagram morphing is a mathematical picture of viewing events in spacetime from different inertial frames of reference. Here we see how events that occur simultaneously in one inertial frame (on a line parallel to the x-axis) do not necessarily happen simultaneously in another 🧪

A nice easy one for Monday from J Hartle's Gravity 🧪

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full frontal lobe@ratfan.bsky.social · last yr.

Trying to understand new maths concepts in science usually feels like it boils down to 'which numbers do I plug in where and how do I know if the numbers that come out are bigger or smaller than they should be'

Particle physics is like, red flimflams emit floopydoops and become gigglepops, blue flimflams emit floopydoops and become red flimflams. Charlie Browns can emit other Charlie Browns and form Charlie chains. Chumbawambas are responsible for the expansion of the universe 🧪

What I do in public is nobody's business

In what sense does the Higgs field give particles mass? The standard model of particle physics is actually complete without Higgs, if all the particles moved at the speed of light. But only massless particles can move at light speed 🧪

Remember to take life 10⁻⁴⁴ seconds at a time 🧪

Particle physics is like, red flimflams emit floopydoops and become gigglepops, blue flimflams emit floopydoops and become red flimflams. Charlie Browns can emit other Charlie Browns and form Charlie chains. Chumbawambas are responsible for the expansion of the universe 🧪

Nothing better than extremely hi-fi overproduced 'lo-fi' music

Was this written by a 5 year old

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · last yr.

I hate to ask this but i have to, are we now the bad guys? adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/are-we-now...

What is the relationship between these two equations of gravitational potential energy we learn in school? I'd tell but I have the flu 🧪

Trying to understand new maths concepts in science usually feels like it boils down to 'which numbers do I plug in where and how do I know if the numbers that come out are bigger or smaller than they should be'

A nice easy one for Monday from J Hartle's Gravity 🧪

This spacetime diagram morphing is a mathematical picture of viewing events in spacetime from different inertial frames of reference. Here we see how events that occur simultaneously in one inertial frame (on a line parallel to the x-axis) do not necessarily happen simultaneously in another 🧪

Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Alprazolam 🎶

Because time runs slower as gravity gets stronger, over a 100 year period a person living on the ground floor lives a few microseconds longer than someone on the top floor. 🧪⌛

Why can't I travel at just 1% lightspeed in this futuristic year of 2025? Then I could travel to the opposite side of the globe in less than 7 seconds. Seriously who wants to run the calculations? 🧪 It would make visiting my parents so much easier.

If this app wants to be legitimate it needs to find ways to reach more users in Africa, Asia, and South America to name a few regions. At the moment if feels more like a big whatsapp group for US Democrats