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 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to science_memes@mander.xyz
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superkret@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Dont forget, it’s also a fuckton of ghosts.
match@pawb.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Is theoretical physics just reverse engineering the physics engine by playing with variables and tracking the changes?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
What is “is”? Doesn’t matter, burrito time.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
And it’s imperial?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Actually, it’s a little under 9.1 kilograms, but “about 20 pounds” has less syllables.
ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
But is it heavier or lighter than 9.1 kilograms of feathers?
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Fair enough
Malgas@beehaw.org 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
At the first three panels I thought this was a conversation with a stochastic parrot
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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