Computers are magic.
Circuit boards are basically runes, written in stone and inlaid with precious metals to conduct pure energy around in very specific ways to do pretty much anything we wish.
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Computers are magic.
Circuit boards are basically runes, written in stone and inlaid with precious metals to conduct pure energy around in very specific ways to do pretty much anything we wish.
Shit gets spooky when you consider proton non decay at its utmost consequences
Bridge Diodes current regulation are considered physics? I mean, yeah, but about as much as any other science field, right?
What's the bottom right image of?
That is a mercury arc rectifier:
I thought you might also enjoy its German name: Quecksilberdampfgleichrichter
Sounds kinda similar to the Swedish word "kvicksilverbågelikriktare"....
EDIT: After doing some more googling, the proper name for the device in Swedish is:
"Kvicksilverlikriktare"
and sounds nothing like the hungarian "higanyív szelep" or "higanygőz egyenirányító"
It shows Cherenkov radiation of a nuclear underwater reactor (I think, I don't know this exact picture)
Nope, just plain UV from the mercury arc in the rectifier:
Looks like cherenkov radiation?
Nope, that is a mercury arc rectifier:
That's some fuckin' 1800s steampunk adjacent shit
Oh yeah, the glass age of electronics gave us some really cool stuff!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimo_tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geissler_tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoscope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoscope
Fuck it, physics is magic. You study for years to learn the innate laws of the universe and bend them to your will. You know what most people would do if magicians were real people? They'd call them nerds for spending too much time studying and most people would avoid the subject like the plague. Magicians and physicists are the same thing.
My physics teacher is also a magician so you got a point
Depends on how good the magic was. If it let you fireball a room full of goblins with a wave of your hand, l read mins, lightning people with your fingertips like emperor palpatine, and conjure familiars to do your house work?
All without any manufacturing facilities and minimal capital outlay
I dare say physics would be more popular then
Quantum Tunneling, Quantum entanglement, statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
And that's not even the worst part. Its theoretically possible,that every single electron is the same.
Imagine thinking there's any situation in which particles appear to move faster than the speed of light.
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
We sometimes conjure fireballs but it's totally from a certain type of invisible gas and also you can't smell the gas but it's definitely there and NOT MAGIC
Just about anything with “black,” or, “dark,” in its name, be very skeptical. 🧐 But quantum entanglement, that’s the good stuff. Only GR’s SpaceTime mechanics comes close to being as crazy.
what are GR's spacetime mechanics?
Saw a working mercury arc rectifier for the first time recently and those things are wild, definitely don't look "right"
Man, 2 full bridge rectifiers in the same meme?
This is either electroboom, or struggling for things to fill a meme
Where's the second one
By elimination it must be the "what the fuck"
Edit: Yeah, that's it. Someone below mentioned a mercury arc rectifier.
Ooo that's exciting. At a glance without paying attention it looked like a reactor with cherenkov radiation
The "not a demon" guy is going to have a real bad time.
Fool me once, shame on… shame on me. Fool me twice? You can’t get fooled again!
Because of the fatal dose of radiation.
Just don't build a house of neutron-reflective tungsten carbine bricks around it or cowboy the beryllium hemispheres, hell, maybe just trust the last guys' calculations instead of testing for closeness to criticality. Safe as houses.
He will not sacrifice an entire room to a deamon. I repeat, it's not a sacrifice of everybody in a room for a deamon.