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Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.

https://explainxkcd.com/3017/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If they’re at the center of the planet are they weightless?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think so? The mass of the earth above pulling more or less equally in all directions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

So my back would finally stretch out and pop? Sounds like my dream.