Comment on Make gravity your bitch

• captainjaneway@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is that actually true? I’m not an expert but I thought all forces extend our into infinity. I thought we just allowed them to go to 0 at a certain radius for the sake of making the math manageable.

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  • nxn@biglemmowski.win ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not the person you replied to, and not really an expert either, but I can tell you that the W and Z bosons (force carriers for the weak force) are very short lived and can only travel so far before they decay. This effectively puts a cap on the distance of the weak force.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Strong force is the same.

      I don’t know if it’s shorter than the weak force, but you gotta be in an atom’s nucleus to experience it

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If i ever got a PhD or master’s even in Physics, id probably write a book on how “The Universe Demands Laziness.” Because pretty much everything in physics ends up with a system taking shortcuts to save a little bit of energy.

        This is how I teach both physics and chemistry. Electrons are lazy - they’re going to chill in the lowest energy level they can. They fill in sub shells like people getting on a bus - you aren’t going to sit next to someone else unless you have to, you’re going to sit probably as close to the front (nucleus) as you can.

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      • Verito@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t know if it’s shorter than the weak force, but you gotta be in an atom’s nucleus to experience it

        That’s what she said.

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      • sepi@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The strong force also gets stronger with distance

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      • muix@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        TIL the Univers was written in Haskell

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      • nxn@biglemmowski.win ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So this is where my inexperience kicks in, but I don’t understand how the strong force can function in the same way considering that gluons are massless.

        The W and Z bosons having mass prevents them from being able to travel at the speed of light, and therefore they experience time and can only travel some limited distance before decaying into fermions.

        But since gluons do not have mass, they, like photons, do not experience time – and so how could they have a half life?

        In my mental model of the strong force I assumed that they simply were created and destroyed in an exchange between quarks – much like how photons get absorbed/emitted by electrons. But this alone does not cause a limit on the distance of strong interactions, so I assumed that mechanically any limit on the strong force’s distance must be different.

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  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah, at some point the simulation we live in is going to round down to save computing power.

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    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Is that simulation in the room with us ri

      WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay.
      Reverting current state.
      3,245,333,345,728,345,876 recoveries until reboot.
      

      us right now? Hurrr durr

      WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay.
      Reverting current state.
      3,245,333,345,728,345,875 recoveries until reboot.
      

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are you the mirror universe version of DarkViperAU?

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