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[–] DarkCloud 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Science Journalists; Neil Degrasse Tyson claims dead pixels may actually be Mercury sized planets!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Proof that light is a particle and not a wave?

[–] PunnyName 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Yes, but also both. (a simple example follows)

Think of it like you being at work or home. If I check your house, either you're there, or you aren't. If you're there, you're at home, simple. If not at home, you're at work.

Same with your work: either you're there when I check - or you aren't, therefore at home.

But before I check either location (it's understood that you are only in 1 of those 2 places), you are effectively in both places, and neither place, all at once.

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

What if all particles are waves. They just temporarily form loops that we consider to have particle behaviour when observed on a larger scale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Great, Brian Greene's been drinking again.

[–] JimVanDeventer 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

How is the next transit of Venus not until 2117? That blows my socks’ mind. Seems like that should be happening very regularly.

[–] A_A 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same reasons for any eclipses :
.1- plane of orbits (the one for Venus and the one for the Earth) do not exactly coincide and
.2- because distances between objects are much larger than objects, including size of the sun.

[–] JimVanDeventer 3 points 3 days ago

I believe you. Still seems wild that I will never see another one in my lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's probably more about how often it's visible in your part of the world than it happening at all if I had to guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I mean it would but I’ve known the scale of the universe since i still threw myself birthday parties…lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Praise the sun!

[–] Diplomjodler3 4 points 3 days ago

My socks were appropriately blown off but I still didn't get invited.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

So conditioned that NDT is talking bullshit and people dunking on him that I had to read it a couple of times to understand it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Imagine what the sun would look like standing on Mercury.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I tried wiping the dust off my screen 😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

so is basically the whole sky sun on mercury during the day?

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