niktemadur
@niktemadur@lemmy.world
- Comment on Manifolds 4 days ago:
The existence of a connection on a manifold enables one to reason consistently about geometric concepts on the whole manifold.
The geometry of the cosmos itself. Tracing good ol’ fashioned circles and triangles with the full extent of the visible universe and even beyond. This stuff blows my mind, even just the mere fact that we’re doing it, let alone the fact that we’re getting such incredible, counter-intuitive results.
Picture yourself having a time machine, going back to visit Euclid or Pythagoras, or even Kepler or Galileo, and blowing their mind with four words: The Geometry Of Spacetime.
Not only does time itself has a geometry, it must curve and contract to accommodate the absolute speed of light… nuts I tell ya.
Then there are at least four spatial dimensions, but there may be as many as eleven. To think that Copernicus thought epicycles were weird, wait till he gets a load of THIS!
- Comment on The Periodic Table according to astronomers 1 week ago:
“So, they’re ALL metals?”
“Always have been.” - Comment on George Carlin spent nearly his entire life trying to warn us of what is happening 1 week ago:
What is happening is happening because people don’t vote and regularly allow right-wing shitheads to erode the government and society in bad faith, and George Carlin also said “wHy BoThEr VoTiNg?”
So George Carlin was no messiah and no prophet.
There are no messiahs. There are no prophets.
Yet people insist on “if it’s not perfect and requires my patience and consistency, I’d rather eat shit than lift a finger once a year”. - Comment on My kids bored out of their minds with a house full of toys, don't know how good they got it 1 week ago:
“We have done it, Assurnipal my friend. Now we sit back and wait until someone invents the internal combustion engine.”
- Comment on She would be proud 1 week ago:
“I remember back in the day when I squirted JUST LIKE THAT.”
- Comment on Hey kid, wanna buy some eggs? 1 week ago:
This is 'Murica, needs more GUN!
- Comment on It's a skill 1 week ago:
Relaxes stressfully
We need to make up a new similar-but-different word, to get rid of the oxymoron. Going through the motions of superficially relaxing could be stated as:
Relaxifies stressfully
- Comment on Once you roll down the stairs, you're all set 2 weeks ago:
Might as well have slapped an “A.I.-powered for your convenience and safety” sign on those doors, while they’re going through the mindless bullshit motions.
- Comment on Good morning I choose creativity and recycling. 2 weeks ago:
Adapt.
Improvise.
Overcome.
Microplastics. - Comment on I'll show them 2 weeks ago:
What are the options for someone watching on a Roku or Firestick?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Kessel Run. In less than 12 parsecs.
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been calling it that for eight years now. Give or take.
- Comment on Uncanny sandwich 2 weeks ago:
Squint your eggs!
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 weeks ago:
Mexico reporting in, just yesterday I had two avocado toasts with four poached eggs on top.
Now where are those Dairy Section decals of the orange intestinal parasite that say - “I did this!”?
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
So we domesticated fire, that’s one step out of the swamp and steppes.
Then there was agriculture and animal husbandry, we became sedentary.Writing developed, accelerating growth in the arts, math and engineering, the sciences… we had domesticated knowledge and memory - data storage.
Before we knew it, the printing press popped up and soon after we domesticated something abstract and invisible, awesome and truly fundamental - electromagnetism. That’s is the big game changer right there.
We have figured out our physical place in the universe.
We can image distant supermassive black holes, we have mapped the farthest, faintest reaches of the visible universe using the oldest light there is - the Cosmic Microwave Background (which started out as orange light 13.7 billion years ago).We are now in the process of harnessing sunlight and the wind; the genome; we can now even perform data operations using quantum superimposed electron states, harnessing the subatomic wave function itself.
Surely we can now domesticate protein chemistry. So many steps away from the swamp and steppes already, so far we can’t turn and go back again. What’s one more step?
- Comment on At least Biff wasn't allowed to appoint Supreme Court justices 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, well that’s what happens when you want your politics to satisfy your celebrity “culture” cravings, otherwise “politics are boring, why bother voting?”, never allowing time for fixes and positive change to gain inertia, and it is easier and quicker for political red meat predators to break something than for well-meaning government nerds to fix it.
And also, of course - “vote for woman?! when pigs fly! muh puriteh!”
This piggish government is an accurate reflection of its’ people, both the maga and the non-voting shitheads: ignorant, lazy and angry. Looking for a magical messiah, like medieval peasants. - Comment on Putting the die in diet 3 weeks ago:
Replace the egg by a œuf.
- Comment on An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58] 3 weeks ago:
“I think politics should always be entertaining. Then I get annoyed that politicians are always drawing attention to themselves and there’s always drama. I cannot even visualize living life any other way. I find myself to be very intelligent! And pure. I find myself to be very intelligent and pure. At the center of the universe! I mean… I turn around, I see the horizon always at the same distance… I must be at the center of the universe. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I find myself to be very intelligent, and pure, and at the center of the universe.”
- Comment on Keep away 3 weeks ago:
Hashtag Prankin’ Doctors On Tiktak, yOu WoN’t BeLiEvE wHaT hApPeNs NeXt!!!
- Comment on Boss Mode 3 weeks ago:
Holy Minkowski spaces, Batman! It’s the old man himself!
- Comment on Accurate cartography 3 weeks ago:
Japan has always given me more of a Denmark vibe. The general shape and area, lots of islands, connected to its’ mainland and a bit on the flatter side but hey, you can’t have it all exactly alike, can you?
They even have their own kinda-sorta version of sushi with a Baltic twist, heavy on the pickled herring. But there is a famous pickled fish sushi version from Kyoto. - Comment on Beautiful 4 weeks ago:
Have you heard of the tragedy of Type-O stars…?
- Comment on Boss Mode 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but is it a wave or a particle, eh, Einstein? Answer that!
- Comment on Boss Mode 4 weeks ago:
Put a monocle on him and make it The Speed Of Causality.
- Comment on Me too, thanks. 5 weeks ago:
MOM!!! cm0002 says we live in Andromeda, is that true?!!
- Comment on Ughh 5 weeks ago:
When
it’s morning andpeople are using words and expecting things from me. - Comment on For work-sore hands 5 weeks ago:
What’s the name of that Talking Heads compilation?
Sand In The Vaseline. - Comment on ScIence 5 weeks ago:
“What the hell are you kids doing down there in the basement, that you need these more specific units?”
“Um… nothing, sir. Everything is quite all right, quite all right.”
“Hrumph! Very well then, I shall be in my study. And do try to keep the bloody racket down, for chrissakes!”
“Yes sir, thank you sir, goodnight sir… Whew… that was a close one!” - Comment on Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin. 5 weeks ago:
Brutalist playground!
- Comment on We got several more inches of snow last night after getting over seven a few days ago. I went to my local newspaper's website to find out if there was anything I should know. This was their top story. 5 weeks ago:
In the past week on YouTube, on channels about math and physics, I started getting a constant bombardment of online casino ads. The predatory enshittification is intense anywhere you look.