niktemadur
@niktemadur@lemmy.world
- Comment on well? 1 day ago:
But then there’s the guy who added all the mass and energy of the observable universe, calculated its’ Schwarzschild Radius, and came up with 13.8 billion light years.
There’s also how our observable universe’s Hubble Horizon acts like a black hole event horizon, the way in which even the speed of light is insufficient to escape beyond.
A lot of the math inside a black hole is eerily similar to the math of our own horizon, as traced by the age of the universe plus the speed of light.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 1 day ago:
Coldplay is for people who think they enjoy high art because they watch period costume dramas about the Victorian Age. Because that’s what high art is, isn’t it? Stuffy settings and dialogue, delivered in a bygone accent.
- Comment on Sabine Hossenfelder Has Started Openly Defending Proven Grifters 1 day ago:
I watch a lot of science channels and videos on YouTube, there’s just so much extraordinary content out there, going deep into the math and formulas of cosmology and physics.
Sooner rather than later, the algorithm started pushing this woman’s videos on my homescreen. She most definitely leans towards the clickbait titles and bombastic controversy, two things that I hate, so it was again time to take out the digital machete and hack away at the algorithm, as I do nearly every day. But then she just keeps on popping up in other people’s videos and podcasts, some trustworthy content creators seem to have a high regard for her academic work.
But just like assholes like James Woods or Joe Rogan have made themselves unbearable for me, even retroactively, just their presence and voice take me out of whatever I’m watching, put me in a bad mood, so too it is with Hossenfelder. In an age of the digital smorgasbord, a never-ending stream of science and math educational content of a high level and mind-blowing quality, I can survive and thrive just fine while avoiding the assholes.
- Comment on salty child 2 days ago:
Take it one level lower on down, when you’re the size of an electron, orbitals are wild, turbulent places, sometimes sharing electrons which also often get zapped by light, so they jump to a higher orbital, then they randomly spit out that photon and reappear back down… all the orbitals of a molecule violently jiggling all the time.
Take photosynthesis. Simply put and to oversimplify but it’s essentially accurate, a photon hits an electron bullseye in a leaf molecule, which sets off a wave of energy in motion, breaking up molecules, reassembling them into sugars and waste product (oxygen).
A red photon raises an electron one orbital up, that sets off one process at a certain level of energy. A blue photon raises an electron two orbitals up, that sets off another process at twice the energy level. - Comment on Orb 3 days ago:
T H I C C Mitochondria!
- Comment on In the cave 5 days ago:
This was originally a Warhol idea, wasn’t it?
A six hour film of the Empire State building, as the day goes and the lighting changes, I think it was meant as like a window from an apartment or office right in the thick of Manhattan.Truth be told, I don’t hate the idea. Currently, it could be a framed digital screen on a loop, or showing a webcam feed. Why not a live view of Istanbul, or of the Moroccan desert?
- Comment on Dik Piks 6 days ago:
Why don’t you please tell us how you really feel?
The burn is so hot, it’s gonna cost several thousand in ER fees. - Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
Don’t you wish there was a way to quit enabling these shit-kickin’ shitheads. To let them actually live what they preach, in isolation without their shitwater splashing and spilling around everywhere else.
None of their politicians asking for handouts behind closed doors and under the table, too embarrassed to admit to the voters that yes, indeed, a collective government IS extremely useful AND convenient when you need it the most, and not only when YOU need it but also when OTHERS need it, too.
But one might as well try and explain quantum mechanics to a goddamned brick wall.
- Comment on oops 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s sooooo funny… it’s heeeeeeel-larious! I don’t know about you, but I for one can’t stop laughing!
The way language is used or abused creates patterns in the mind.
I strongly suspect that this way of using language is not healthy at all, for an individual nor for a community. - Comment on Viewers like you 2 weeks ago:
Then there is also all those mediocre non-voters who empowered by default the motivated-by-hysteria, toxic dregs of society, up and down Main St. and deep within their communities and suburbs.
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 2 weeks ago:
This, like so many other cruel unnecessary things, could have been easily avoided.
“But… but… muh puriteh! bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe”
vOtE fOr A wOmAn? mE?!! wHeN PIGS FLY!!! - Comment on 4D Salmon 2 weeks ago:
The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!
- Comment on Wheee 3 weeks ago:
Then by year two of his lockdown, Newton was inserting a tiny lever under his own eyeball, inside the eye socket, to try and figure out how the eye captures and processes light.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 3 weeks ago:
What time is it?
It’s Beer O’clock! - Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 3 weeks ago:
Wainscoting. Sounds like… a little Dorset village. Wainscoting.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 3 weeks ago:
…unless you heat them up first, to kill the bacteria; two minutes on HIGH ought to do it.
- Comment on Anon conserves power 3 weeks ago:
What would happen if you did the equivalent of feeding your A.I. a healthy diet, then run a parallel system and fed it only burgers and pizza and Doritos?
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 4 weeks ago:
The moral of the story is: no rusty banal or shitty memory is banal or shitty enough, for these postmodern kids nowadays to NOT commoditize it as “nostalgia”. EXACTLY like their boomer parents with their own rusty banal or shitty items in their memory bank.
“I look around me, and the horizon seems to be at the same distance everywhere I look, therefore it must be obvious: I am at the center of the Universe.”
- Comment on Arts & STEM 4 weeks ago:
Damn, they got to him before he could get it out.
Curse you, lizard overlords! - Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 4 weeks ago:
Orange-shooting Man!
- Comment on Suggestion 5 weeks ago:
Chuckables.
Guffawfables. - Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 5 weeks ago:
He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior, and much too young, wasn’t he in his late-30s or early-40s?
In fact, I believe that had Hertz remained alive and won his prize, the Nobel Committee would not have felt obliged to give it to Marconi a few years later.
Marconi was a back-stabbing asshole who became one of the wealthiest men in the world by abusing the gentlemanly trust of others, and coasting on someone else’s technology - particularly the way crystals oscillate, and some of them serve nicely as a sort of “translation point” between electromagnetic waves and the physical apparatus that transmits and/or receives the signal.
- Comment on Peak male form 5 weeks ago:
Some of these guy are packin’ some serious heat!
- Comment on magnum pi 5 weeks ago:
Euler and Gauss… the lads.
- Comment on Stop this tomfoolery at once 1 month ago:
Hey Farva! What’s the name of that restaurant you like?
- Comment on Stop this tomfoolery at once 1 month ago:
I swear to god I’ll pistol-whip the next guy who says “shenanigans”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Imagine a sci-fi world, far in the future, where there are enough old unearthed pennies to be used as currency, but they are scarce enough to acquire great relative value.
“Hey, that must have cost a small fortune!”
“A hundred and twenty five pennies, to be exact.”
“Damn!” - Comment on demon named racecar 2 months ago:
The Majorana Superhero!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 2 months ago:
Baby Shark & Wild Stallyns. Party on, dude!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 2 months ago:
What’s the matter ese?
Don’t you know I’m goth-o?