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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

What we need is a visionary stem dropout to put it all together in a powepoint and release a YouTube video about how academia is suppressing their ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I read this in the jingle voice from 'the history of the entire world, I guess'. You know, the part about China?

Physics is back together 🎢 and it broke again

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wasn't there an experiment with lasers and reversing cause and effect?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I read this in TechnologyConnections voice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Just wait until you learn about friction!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It should be said that this is from Science Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness by Zach Wienersmith.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weinersmith, really? Poor bastard

Thanks, though, that's really helpful! I didn't believe you until I looked it up :)

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

His last name at birth was Weiner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

And his wife's was Smith. They combined their names when they married.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love that quote. I should buy that book just as an artifact to make me happy every time I see it. The absolute pinnacle of self-aware humor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Which book?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The book "States of Matter" by David L. Goodstein.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That's a good one lol, love it when a textbook has some humor.

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

I can't remember which text it is, but it opens talking about a bunch of physicists studying stat mech then suck starting shotguns. Then it goes "and now it's our turn to study statistical mechanics"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

I love the honesty of actual science.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago

Then Einstein and Bohr broke everything again. Then Dirac and Feynman put it back together again. Now, we've basically got it all worked out...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"This is how the world works, except maybe it's not." - Physics

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

"This is a model and description of how the world seems to work"