milicent_bystandr
@milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
- Comment on Not the same 5 days ago:
Wow, I nearly ignored your link - glad I didn’t!
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
So what you’re saying is, maize domesticated us, but it’s also sociopathic and generally evil, and probably believes in eugenics with a side of racism.
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
Ah, but you forget, Maizen have a collective identity, so stalks think nothing of sacrificing their individual lives for the good of the whole.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 1 week ago:
Depends how many suitcases you’re carrying
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 week ago:
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone excited since a couple of movies after endgame. I was likewise - I watched some with high hopes but kept being disappointed, it seems they’ve run out of story writing and turned to miscellaneous amalgamated cartoon hijinks with random jokes and purposeless CGI.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
We tried it with war once, people liked it but the bosses cancelled it next time.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
If I didn’t need the flexibility my Android (Lineage) gives me, the iPhone 13 mini is one phone that’s actually a nice size.
And my Samsung S10e - just it’s out of date for firmware updates.
Though I’d actually prefer something smaller and use my phone for less.
- Comment on From now on, I wish to be addressed as Lt. Commodre Squid 3 weeks ago:
Now that they’re in England, it has to be.
- Comment on Forgive them, for they know not what they do 3 weeks ago:
Don’t steal! You should rent it. And tip OP.
- Comment on Forgive them, for they know not what they do 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard of cow tipping. Is landlord tipping the same sort of thing?
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
More or less. There’s a bit more nuance to it, and I was thinking particularly of the case of entangled particles at a distance rather than a self-interfering particle through a slit - but it probably resolves down to much the same mathematics.
Bell’s inequality proves the simple (‘realist’, above) option can’t be true, but the Copenhagen Interpretation is the most accepted interpretation of the alternative. Wikipedia lists three such interpretations, and IIRC “many worlds” is a separate one to the Copenhagen Interpretation. Though again, it’s a bit more nuanced. When I was studying, I think they basically assumed Copenhagen, though not treating that entirely as settled fact, and leaving other interpretations as niche.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
I see. Thank you for your more explanatory reply. I must not hang out in the right circles, because I haven’t seen that enough to see it as a cliché. Perhaps the commenter was not dismissing multiverse theory because of a gut reaction, but because they’re fed up themselves with popular and un-falsifiable speculation being treated as science.
The incredible thing with these weird results is they are falsifiable - this “spooky action at a distance” that famous pre-redditor Albert dismissed as nonsense. Bell’s inequality, that lies at the heart of the trouble, is experimentally demonstrable.
But there’s a gap between that science and the interpretations of it. And maybe coming from they popular end, it’s easy to see the wilder speculations as nothing more than unprovable imagination.
But in the end, after re-writing much of my comment, I have to concede the point. I feel you’ve made a bit of a straw man to attack, but I agree a thing can seem unapproachable scientifically - non-falsifiable - but still be valid science. Even in this area, IIRC, part of the debate over the main quantum mechanics interpretations is quite whether they can be falsified or experimentally differentiated: and that itself takes time and logic and mathematics… it takes science!
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
You mean the post at the top? Or the comment you replied to? Either way I don’t really see the cliché.
Do you mean that something being non-falsifiable making it non-scientific is a cliché? That’s how science works: by having theories that can be differentiated with experiment.
Or, of the post, that multiverses contain every conceivable universe, then why anti-intellectual, when it’s just a silly joke?
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
But there’s a universe where you aren’t.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
Aha! The one from Cheshire!
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
I think you mean, multiverses that every multiverse that doesn’t contain itself. In which case, obviously yes. And it’s made up entirely of barbers.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
Which is the anti-intellectual cliché?
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
It’s not purely a wild, non-falsifiable idea. It comes from a theory to reconcile the very-much-falsifiable-but-not-falsified results of quantum mechanics. IIRC there are three main theories to interpret the results and all of them are down-and-out weird. Last I looked, one of them at least is controversial about whether or not it could (in principle) be experimentally differentiated from the others.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
Or am I getting this completely wrong?
I mean, the whole premise is getting this completely wrong. The actual physics idea behind multiple universes is that every possibility in specific quantum events happens, each one being in a separate, ‘parallel’, universe where everything else in the universe is exactly the same. All the laws of physics stay the same, just the results of all the cumulative random possibilities are different.
This is also not the only explanation of that strange phenomenon in quantum mechanics.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
Infinite countries. Which mumblemumble clearly makes it all work.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
It’s being suppressed by Big Paper. Or by Big Universe.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
Quantum results are hard to explain, but proven (by experiment) to be real. There’s a particular mathematical/logical definition of something being ‘real’ and ‘local’, that I’ve still only half got my head around, and it should be true but isn’t.
The main experiment is two particles that, if you check one, it affects what you’ll see in the other in a particular, but subtle , way. And it’s proven mathematically impossible to find an explanation where they don’t either communicate faster than the speed of light (so, not ‘local’) but the effect actually happens (‘real’).
The trick is in the statistics - the pattern of results - that match up between the two particles in this very particular way. And one way to explain it is that different options are also happening, but in a different universe - i.e. every time two different things could happen, reality splits into two realities, one where this happens and one where that happens.
That’s for specific quantum events, but some think those such quantum events underlie all choices and possibilities in reality. So, scale up that idea and you get ‘infinite’ (actually just very very many) parallel universes, one for every possibility that could ever have happened, branching off into more each time a (quantum) choice happens.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
If there are an infinite number of road junctions, there must be one that reaches a place where road junctions don’t exist.
- Comment on It's impossible to lose 4 weeks ago:
I heard they’re unethical. Made with slave labour or something.
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 4 weeks ago:
You want to know my secret?
How I survive Lemmy?
I’m always happy :-D
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 4 weeks ago:
if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public.
I wouldn’t want to let you down, so,
two new admins, who’s primary duties
Should be “whose primary duties”
For real, though, thank you for your work looking after this instance! And big thanks in advance to whoever takes up the new admin roles. I hope there’s some of you out there who have time to take this up, wisdom to do it well, and patience… because, well, it’s the internet!
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 month ago:
On year seven, after Mayor Lewis sold out to Joja despite your best efforts to restore the community house, you challenge him to a battle of Junimo-singing and frighten him all the way off to exile on Ginger Island. Half the town side with you, but the governor rolls in (in his Joja-branded limo) and rules with an iron fist, bringing in cheap labour fleeing the Gotoro Empire, and torturing those who try to resist.
“Stardew belongs to the valley-folk!” you cry from your farm, now fortified and suffering the bitter winter month.
“M’lord Farmer Sir,” says Vincent, now grown up and serving as your errand boy. “News came of a trader caught trying to enter from the Calico Desert. The Gov’s forces were going to execute him-” (would that be poor Robin with her famous axe?) “-but he was saved by the ominous arrival of a green jelly!”
For a moment your hopes rise: are the prophecies coming true, that you found inexplicably written in a note in your farmyard tree last year? Will this mysterious interloper perhaps give you victory and free Stardew Valley from the clutches of the evil governor and his swarms of cheap immigrant labour? … From the dirty, rude, immigrants … From the immigrants…
You slump forward in your hands downcast, at last facing the terrible realisation: that you have, in fact, become the very evil you once swore to destroy.
- Comment on Resume help 1 month ago:
Thanks :-)
- Comment on Anon gets a job 1 month ago:
Getting paid to be there through the night for the times when a person is actually needed, as well as being on site to keep an eye on things. Sounds like honest work to me
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 month ago:
But fibre does form a crucial part of a healthy diet. Much on fibre optic cables while you sweat hard to dig up the real copper.