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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit gets spooky when you consider proton non decay at its utmost consequences

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tell us about the spooky, dammit

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Bridge Diodes current regulation are considered physics? I mean, yeah, but about as much as any other science field, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's electrical engineering if anything

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's the bottom right image of?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought you might also enjoy its German name: Quecksilberdampfgleichrichter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sounds kinda similar to the Swedish word "kvicksilverbågelikriktare"....

EDIT: After doing some more googling, the proper name for the device in Swedish is:

"Kvicksilverlikriktare"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

and sounds nothing like the hungarian "higanyív szelep" or "higanygőz egyenirányító"

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It shows Cherenkov radiation of a nuclear underwater reactor (I think, I don't know this exact picture)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Nope, just plain UV from the mercury arc in the rectifier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My physics teacher is also a magician so you got a point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Quantum Tunneling, Quantum entanglement, statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's not even the worst part. Its theoretically possible,that every single electron is the same.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking there's any situation in which particles appear to move faster than the speed of light.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

what are GR's spacetime mechanics?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw a working mercury arc rectifier for the first time recently and those things are wild, definitely don't look "right"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, 2 full bridge rectifiers in the same meme?
This is either electroboom, or struggling for things to fill a meme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

By elimination it must be the "what the fuck"

Edit: Yeah, that's it. Someone below mentioned a mercury arc rectifier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ooo that's exciting. At a glance without paying attention it looked like a reactor with cherenkov radiation

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The "not a demon" guy is going to have a real bad time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Fool me once, shame on… shame on me. Fool me twice? You can’t get fooled again!

Because of the fatal dose of radiation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

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