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[–] niktemadur 9 points 2 days ago

Infotainment media is mental illness itself, compulsive and addicted, with no memory retention nor ethical compass, it amplifies what is worst in man, it FEEDS it.

And that's not even considering enemy propaganda from china and russia infiltrating itself into peoples minds, trying to destabilize democracies.

Fuck your sociopathic industry, what you made it into.

In particle decay, is there a difference when they say "average lifetime" vs "half life"? Also: in the Large Hadron Collider, how long does a particle collision event (or experiment) last? in c/askscience

[–] niktemadur 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The thing about half life, that the way I'm understanding it, may imply that there are stray Higgs Bosons or Strange/Charmed Quarks here and there that could stick around unreasonably long, maybe, for minutes or hours... is that even possible?

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In particle decay, is there a difference when they say "average lifetime" vs "half life"? Also: in the Large Hadron Collider, how long does a particle collision event (or experiment) last? (self.askscience)

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1955 - Moomin and family life (21/68) in c/[email protected]

[–] niktemadur 6 points 4 days ago

Just frame this and put it in a museum, it is a work of art.

Manifolds in c/[email protected]

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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 have 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!

Spinoza? Meet quantum entanglement with no hidden variables!
"Oy vey!"

Scrolling into the depths in c/[email protected]

[–] niktemadur 4 points 5 days ago

moria (at) midwest (dot) social

Saruman's palantir runs on Deepseek!
orthanc (at) lemmy (dot) ml

Thanks for your input in c/[email protected]

[–] niktemadur -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i DiDn'T vOtE bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL

14 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] niktemadur 1 points 6 days ago

Sure! Why not?!!

14 February 2025 in c/[email protected]

[–] niktemadur 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Someone with the most basic, rudimentary Photoshop skills (e.g. not me) could turn this into a Saddam meme.

Two US soldiers in an embrace in the snow, Austrian Alps, WW2, 1945 in c/historyporn

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During WWII, everything was in black and white and no gaydar!

19th Century Photography of a Dog in c/historyporn

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"Personally, I suscribe to the Plum Pudding Model of the atomic realm. As a matter of fact, I'm feeling rather peckish right about now... [yelps for food]."

What's something you enjoy eating that other people think is super weird? in c/asklemmy

[–] niktemadur 2 points 1 week ago

Sauerkraut acidhead... sounds like any of the members of Can, Amon Düül or Neu!

What's something you enjoy eating that other people think is super weird? in c/asklemmy

[–] niktemadur 2 points 1 week ago

I'd like to try that on a crunchy baguette.

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What food or item/brand did you use to love, but isn't around anymore? (self.asklemmy)

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Me first: in the early 80s, I remember the Vons supermarket chain had their own brand of sour cream dip for potato chips, one flavor that people I know loved was fresh pismo clam, it still had chunks of clam meat in there. One day it got yanked from the shelves and I've never seen it again.

More recently, about a decade ago, Trader Joe's carried cheddar-and-horseradish potato chips, then one day they were gone.

I would love... LOVE... to dip those horseradish chips into that clam dip... sigh.

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If the difference between electrons and positrons, or quarks and antiquarks, is having opposite charge, what's the difference between chargeless neutrinos and antineutrinos? (self.askscience)

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Are there any theoretical photon energies or frequencies above gamma rays, or below radio waves? (self.askscience)

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As imaginary numbers (square root is negative) are useful, is there any mathematical use for an imaginary number that, when multiplied by zero, gives a non-zero result? (self.askscience)

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Like Neo in The Matrix and "I know kung fu", what one ability would you choose to upload directly to your mind? (self.asklemmy)

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How long would it take for a supermassive black hole like Sag A* to emit a tablespoon of mass via Hawking Radiation? (self.askscience)

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In the same vein, what about a stellar-sized black hole like Cygnus X-1? At this size the rate of evaporation is quicker, right?

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Here's my little lady, striking a perfect pose. Her name is Mudita, from the Sanskrit for "the well-being you feel at seeing the well-being of others". (lemmy.world)

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In regards to the Bose-Einstein Condensate, what could be the daily life, practical application of slowing down or freezing a photon? (self.askscience)

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This all seems as exotic or esoteric to us now as these invisible electromagnetic waves were to Heinrich Hertz, who reportedly regarded them as mere scientific curiosities with no practical applications.

Unable to foresee radio, television, telephones, remote controls, microwave ovens, Wifi, Bluetooth... you get the point, that "thing with no practical applications" is now a staple of daily life, and all around us. We have fully tamed Electromagnetism.

Now with things like Quantum Computing and Bose-Einstein Condensates, we are starting to tame a new esoteric scientific curiosity - the probability wave function, the Uncertainty Principle.

Heinrich Hertz did not foresee things like satellite television and Spotify while looking for a spark flying across two metal tips from his dark room in the 1880s, but surely we have a better grasp of what potential benefits the newest technologies have in store for humanity?
Or are we for the most part still in the Hertz-like naive fiddling process?

Either way, there is going to be some incredible magic inside that quantum box!

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If a 1D figure has length, a 2D figure has area, and a 3D figure has volume, are there names for what's inside 4D, 5D figures and so on? (self.askscience)

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Imagine modern tech could resurrect old movie stars, which movie remake would you like to see them in? (self.asklemmy)

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For example, Humphrey Bogart as Indiana Jones in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Or say Gregory Peck in Saving Private Ryan. Or how about James Dean as Luke Skywalker!

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Regarding the Fine Structure Constant in the spectral emission lines of a hydrogen atom, does the narrow gap/black line represent 1 out of 137 slices or possible steps of something? (self.askscience)

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In the color lines of a spectrograph and what seems to be an area with a certain color, zooming in shows that this color is delicately split in half by a black vertical hairline, on one side it's the emission of photons of color by a hydrogen atom with a spin up electron, on the other it seems to be the same color but it's a spin down electron.

Whenever I hear that gap mentioned, 1/137 is invoked, but I'm not sure precisely what that means, and I'm visualizing that the color of the spectral emission can be divided or deconstructed into a total of 137 vertical lines, and the one in the middle is black.

Maybe it represents 1/137 of a photon's wavelength at a certain color?