Dark matter is the computer running the simulation.
They blacklisted all simulated forces from interacting with it, but one of the devs commented out gravitation for a test and forgot to put it back in.
[XKCD] 3085 About 20 Pounds
Submitted 1 year ago by Pro@programming.dev to science_memes@mander.xyz
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superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
hansolo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Dont forget, it’s also a fuckton of ghosts.
match@pawb.social 1 year ago
seems like it’d be the opposite, it’s the dummy particle used for testing gravity and they didn’t take it out
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 year ago
I’m leaning in more to this is all a simulation and we have discovered the physics engine by trial and error but the hard coded rules behind it are as understandable to us as it would be to Mario
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Is theoretical physics just reverse engineering the physics engine by playing with variables and tracking the changes?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
What is “is”? Doesn’t matter, burrito time.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 year ago
And it’s imperial?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Actually, it’s a little under 9.1 kilograms, but “about 20 pounds” has less syllables.
ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
But is it heavier or lighter than 9.1 kilograms of feathers?
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Fair enough
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I wonder if this was inspired by a koan:
A monk asked Tozan, “What is the Buddha?”
He replied, “Three pounds of flax.”bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
At the first three panels I thought this was a conversation with a stochastic parrot
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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