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School is just one simplification after the other (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

5! Err... 6!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many other states are known such as Bose–Einstein condensates and neutron-degenerate matter but these only occur in extreme situations such as ultra cold or ultra dense matter.

Yup!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really we should talk about quasi particles too. Not exactly a state of matter but stuff like polaritons blur a few lines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My brain is already hurting from all the things I thought were truths when I was younger just to find out that they purposely teach us wrong because to teach us correctly is too hard?!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

no, because it's everything is ludicrously complicated and the nuance often doesn't apply in the majority of cases or understanding it is contingent on knowledge that is much easier internalise if you operate under a simplistic assumption first.

Truth is for maths and logic, the rest is conjecture and models.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Like, water alone has like, five different phases IIRC.

Or was that helium?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

you might by confusing "solid phases" for states of matter.

If we draw a phase diagram you'll see shit like ice, ice 2: the cooler ice, ice 9: radical edition or whatever but they're all solid phases. The they just have different structures.

Sort of like lamp black and graphite are both forms of carbon but not really because that's got to do with distinct bonding. A better example, if you know your steels, is martensite vs autensite.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Ahh yes. Good ol' Michael Reeves. Awesome.

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser 5 points 9 months ago

Which one of his videos is this from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Actually ...

[–] Trollception 2 points 9 months ago

The teacher is a high school student?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

4 is the worst possible answer there is.

You either accept a simple model (fitting the audience/context) or your being pedantic about it, then the answer is anything >=5, but definitely not 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184eP_KuXek

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