“It’s funny how people will believe in Newton’s laws of motion but still think the Force from Star Wars is mythical nonsense.”
big facts
Submitted 12 hours ago by kali_fornication@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
But the Force is Mass times Acceleration!
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Midichlorians are the powerhouse of the Force.
gnutrino@programming.dev 11 hours ago
No, it’s the Force so it has to be the Mass times the Acceleration.
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
fuck me, you got me good I’m mad I laughed as long as I did
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
I do believe gorilla piss exista.
I do not believe drinking gorilla piss would grant you gorilla strength (citation needed).
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
well yeah, obviously! You have to dilute it 1000 times for it to have any effect.
kautau@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
well you eyedrop it into your butthole and then expose your butthole to the sun so the positive solar energy modifies it primally because we’re all made of starlight and that’s just how it works
wewbull@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m so tired of this mainstream propaganda.
Like and subscribe and donate to my channel and I’ll reveal all the virility secrets of Gorpee™ brand supplemental smoothies and shakes!
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Not with that attitude.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
No, no, no, no. You obviously have to sacrifice a goat by dropping it into a volcano and make sure to drink the piss while the goat is still falling.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 hours ago
Where would we find the citation you say is needed, for what you do not believe?
Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Heard some conspiracy folks mention negative frequencies from 5G and the like. It’s just a phase I guess…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Negative frequency is a concept in signal processing, and many other domains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_frequency
Phase could be the thing, beats me, it’s been a while. Negative resistance is also another one of those concepts that pop up now and then, specifically negative differential resistance.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
You can map out the inside of a building and figure out where objects are, and when movement occurs, with WiFi.
You cannot do this with magic woo woo nonsense that equivocates and conflates terms across different domain specific meanings, and then attempts to build a world view out of confused, meaningless/contradictory gibberish.
quarkquasar@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I can’t say I tune with your vibes, but I am grooving to your aura.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Must be a Pisces. Classic Pisces vibes lol
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Some of the more storied and out there reports of what happened with the remote viewing program in the 80s and 90s pretty much get close to this.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Trying to legitimize bullshit by using big words out of context and meaning
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I absolutely believe in energy, frequency, and vibration. My wifi vibrates at a frequency of 2.4 and 5 GHz and in order to do that it needs to use energy.
Like, I’m down with hippie woo energy work, it’s really useful meditation. I use it to keep my anxiety under control. But your religion can’t cure diseases, it can only provide comfort
cattywampas@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Meditation is awesome and useful. But it doesn’t need to be mystical and magical to be great, and I wish more people realized that.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
God has not once healed an amputee. What does he have against them?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
jealousy that we can keep rocking our body image after losing part of it.
TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
No longer made in his image?
cokeslutgarbage@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
That’s how I feel about astrology. A horoscope is just a prompt for self reflection. But it’s fun when something feels woo woo or predictive or relatable because… its fun, idk. Its spooOoOoOoKy, it’s fun, it’s cute. Star charts are a skill you have to learn, it’s a hobby, it makes your brain work.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
yup. i like tarot. it gives me a prompt from which to examine my own thoughts.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The irony of finding two other woo-tolerant Lemmites in this comm.
Once I learned that astrology points to themes of influence on a time frame, it made a lot more sense. Taking it literally and thinking everything is confirmation bias is how people dismiss it. There’s more than a few people that have correctly nailed a lot of big events, it’s more about technique it seems. Nick Dagen Best published a book I think in 2013 or 2016 that is hitting hard right now - totally called Trump 2 and stuck to his guns on that.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 hours ago
I like maps. I like puzzles. Astrology’s both.
First got intrigued when in my ignorant militant atheism dogma phase, and someone managed to discern my sun sign, just by my appearance and behaviours. I have since gone on to do the same to others, typically with as much world-view-changing astonishment in them as I experienced.
Can’t be bunk if that can be done.
The observable profiling reality of it, does open minds to wondering about what’s the astrological weather like.
TheUnwillingOne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Alopatic medicine cures some stuff but what does most is treat symptoms cause what it wants is to make money not to cure disease, I’m quite sure companies making billions off insuline and chemotherapy aren’t going to even bother trying to cure something they are profiting off, in fact is much probable that they actively try to sabotage research that could end their golden goose disease treatments…
Paulemeister@feddit.org 1 hour ago
I kinda don’t believe in Energy, in the sense that I find it a useful conserved quantity to calculate stuff. Energy, or other physical quantities like fields “existing” though, is philosophical question
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 hours ago
Maybe can cure some diseases.
Even just via the comfort provided. Comfort enough, to get into a parasympathetic dominant mode long enough for the body to heal itself.
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
You guys, energy, frequency and vibration are all obviously fake. Nobody has ever observed vibration in real life. Go on and try measuring one of those “frequencies”, I’ll wait. Where are you even supposed to find those? “A faucet dripping”? “Your literal heartbeat”? Don’t make me laugh!
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Tuning forks are big fake
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
have you tried to find a tuning fork lately? they’re little fake now. i just got an application across my desk asking for a grant for money to put tuning forks in weird places because there’s not enough woo and i’m gonna reject it because it’s a good idea and i want to do it.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 hours ago
Big Tuning Fork are lying to us!
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Some of them are also small fake
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Big Stillness doesn’t want you to know.
lime@feddit.nu 11 hours ago
“believe in wi-fi”
TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org 10 hours ago
I peraonally belief in a really thin cable, but big tech is trying to tell us its waves and stuff. But you have your opinion, I have mine. Nobody can be sure wich one is really true.
cynar@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It’s actually a really REALLY fat cable. We spend our entire time inside it.
lime@feddit.nu 10 hours ago
data goes in, data goes out. you can’t explain that.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 10 hours ago
If you don’t believe wi-fi exists, you’d be a fool.
lime@feddit.nu 10 hours ago
i don’t believe in wifi, just like i don’t believe in trees. i know they’re there.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I only believe in my own wifi. My wifi is the one true wifi.
ech@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
They also seem to believe wi-fi “powers everything”? What a loon.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Introducing POW (power over wlan)! By broadcasting a constant small gamma wave, small electronic devices can use the latent energy to power electronic components.
monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I think you’re probably joking, but this actually is a thing. e.g. scitechdaily.com/engineers-harvest-energy-from-wi…
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Yaayyyy, constant gamma radiation!!!
Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 hours ago
I used to love reading W.I.T.C.H. comics and they always had a bunch of fun stuff about zodiacs and reading the future in tea leaves, moons and stars and all that silly stuff. I friggin loved that shit because it was fun for the imagination and it also tied in well with the comic being about a groups magical girls who get their powers from nature and blah blah blah. I thought it was fun to find out what my element was based on what month I was born in and what my birthstone was and take little personality tests to see which one of the girls I was like the most (9 out of 10 times, I got Taranee).
The thing is, though: I always knew it was just play pretend and fun past time stuff.
I have had that fun permanently destroyed for me after people started believing in astrology and magic for real. I know people irl who refer to their zodiacs as an explanation for how they like their coffee or why they push their work to last minute or why they vibe well with this and that person. They take personality tests and believe it for real instead of using it as some stupid past time fun. Online, it’s even worse. It gives me the same level of ick as the women in Sex and the City.
It absolutely fucking ruined the fun for me and I just can’t read my horoscope anymore because I don’t want anyone to think I’m one of those people.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
You might enjoy Terry Pratchett’s witches series. There’s magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 hour ago
Indeed I do! Granted, it has been a minute since I last visited Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, but I have a goal of gnawing my way through 50 books this year, so I might as well peek back in. Thank you for the reminder!
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I didn’t even know there was comics, I only knew of the cartoon growing up. I’m the same way, only thing I do is do tarot card readings for me and my gf, we both know it’s just for fun, we also got some cool cards with the images from cyberpunk2077 so there’s that.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 hours ago
The map is not the terrain.
Somewhere between naive realism and “some stupid past time fun”, there are maps.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Okay but some rocks do have an energy and vibe. This is scientifically proven, the energy is radiation and the vibe is hatred. Pretty fucken useful for a variety of things though, like antique glow in the dark plates.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I have to charge my phone. What is your wifi password?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Tech lets people play games with their thoughts
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
if someone is trying to “convert” you to esoteric/occult beliefs, then that person has no idea what they’re talking about
suodrazah@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
So many layers to unpack here.
Lollygagger@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Specifically OSI layers 1 and 2!
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Dammit.
Bravo.
tetris11@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
I do subscribe to a small comfort belief that our consciousness isn’t just encoded in our neurons but has a radiative component that constructively/destructively interferes with the environment on some small level we atttibute to random events, and that when we die, we sever only the somatic component of our consciousness but our radiative part lives on encoded into a wider network of ambient thought.
Sort of like ghosts/an afterlife, but less moaning and more general vibing the emotion of a park bench from the overlapped thought networks that ever intersected it
Might be in the wrong sub…
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
cynar@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I think consciousness is more than just our neurons, it’s an active waveform riding and guided by them.
Unfortunately, I don’t think it survives death. Without the underlying structure, it collapses to noise.
Interestingly, our brains have special circuits, design to emulate others. In effect, our consciousness imprints onto theirs. It’s not the full pattern, and imperfect, but a part of us lives on in the consciousness of everyone who knows us.
Like ripples in a pond. The water of the initial wave is no longer involved, but it has passed to others.
tetris11@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Interestingly, our brains have special circuits, design to emulate others. In effect, our consciousness imprints onto theirs. It’s not the full pattern, and imperfect, but a part of us lives on in the consciousness of everyone who knows us.
I think this is a far better explained version of what I’m yammering on about. Echoes of yourself living on in other conscious beings, fragmented 1000fold into the general aether of all those you’ve interacted with
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 11 hours ago
Sounds a bit like if we die, we retreat into the human noosphere and become a concept instead of a person
tetris11@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Cool, so you have evidence for this? Or do you routinely believe in outrageous things with zero evidence?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
what
TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
They conscript themselves unto a diminutive solace tenet that our noetic essence is not merely inscribed within our cerebral neurons but encompasses a resplendent effulgence that constructively/destructively commingles with the circumambient firmament upon some infinitesimal stratum we ascribe to capricious vicissitudes, and that upon our demise, we sunder solely the corporeal partition of our noetic essence whilst our effulgent essence endures, enscrolled within a vaster concatenation of ambient cogitation.
Somewhat reminiscent of phantasms/an empyrean continuance, yet less plaintive wailing and clanking of fetters and more ethereal attunement to the affective emanation of a park bench amid the interlaced noetic filigrees that have ever impinged upon it.
They might be in the wrong comm though…
Melobol@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
I only saw the top part of the picture at first, and I was very confused: “Why is this in Science Memes?”
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
World appears to be solid/stable at first but on closer inspection is actually vibratory.
It’s ok to have points of agreement. You don’t have to mock and bicker 100% of the time.
monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
This is what I don’t like about the top meme, though. Like, yes, energy, frequency, and vibration are all things. Obviously. But the top meme is implying that everyone should believe that those things work in the specific ways that the woo practitioners say they do, and that’s a very different demand. More, it’s implying that people who doubt those effects are ignoring obvious evidence, when in fact the people who doubt those effects do so because nobody has been able to demonstrate reliable evidence for them. It has a nasty gaslighting overtone to it.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
There’s not enough information in the top meme to know what theories it’s about.
Things vibrate in a way that isn’t obvious to an unexamined view. If I look at a pebble, it appears to be non-vibratory, still. But a mystic or scientist who has really investigated it closely, exposed it to close analysis, can tell you that the reality of the pebble is vibration, not stillness.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Thats why you scream ‘oh god!’ when climaxing.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
well so does your mom (ive witnessed it)
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Maybe you just don’t understand how I use them?
If you assume I’m using them nonsensically, then yes, I suppose they would seem nonsensical to you…
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
Mkultra
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
They aren’t “powering everything”. JFC go lick a wall outlet, that’s what powers many things. WiFi is information, and indeed, they try to make it use less and less power.