Nah, science has always worked like that. This is what peer review is for.
What’s better than finding evidence that proves your own preconceived notions? Finding evidence that contradicts someone else’s. Schadenfreude is the great engine of scientific progress.
Sorry, that was just the Dean of Unseen University again.
is this the biologist’s equivalent of “assume a flat, frictionless plane”
Assume A Perfectly Homogeneous Liquid Mouse
Except everyone hates on the politician instead.
Valve is notably better (not good, but better) than the other companies you’ve listed.
That is, of course, an anomaly. A good monarchy lasts only as long as the monarch. A good company that exists for longer than the average human lifespan will quickly become no different from its peers.
I heard somewhere that the adult starfish is just the head. Imagine being a face and only a face, scrunching along the seafloor.
Oh for sure. Keep working, throw it in a low-risk low-yield index and use the interest to supplement your income. A modest 5% return gives you an extra 25k a year.
But as others have pointed out, the real problem comes from the awkward questions that come from trying to convert the gold into cash.
She has 5 bars, though, so wouldn’t that be $500,000? Half a million is almost enough for a so called “starter home”
Part of the reason the show works is that we never really see Federation life outside of Starfleet. Mostly this is for practical budget reasons; what does a post-scarcity egalitarian society actually look like? That’s difficult to depict in a show designed to recycle the same set every episode and only very occasionally go outside to film.
So what little we see of the civilian federation looks… a lot like the US. There’s a president. Member states planets. Constant references to US history. A military that operates how Americans like to think their military works, rather than what it actually historically has done.
Newer shows take this even further. Section 31, as it was first introduced, was supposed to be a highly illegal, unsanctioned conspiracy acting in the shadow of the proper Federation. Now they’re presented as the ultra official, coolest badasses who are the only reason any of the egalitarian principals are able to survive.
Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.
Sure that may definitely be the case. But in practice, that means we should be exhausting the comprehensible possibilities first. Many Worlds is an explanation of last resort.
The point of the thought experiment is that a cat that is both alive and dead is absurd and clearly not what actually is happening. Schrödinger intended it to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was not a complete description of the universe, we’re still missing something(s).
https://viruscomix.com/page599.html
you may or may not recognize the artist
https://xcancel.com/alharry/status/1450288983745785862
I guess this is a phishing attempt? Would have worked on me because I immediately needed more context and had to track down the post
Cosmic Owl dreams come real, Blue Dream Bunny dreams are lies, this is basic science!
ugg fiiine you can try to gravitize quantum mechanics, if you really must
Personal Anecdote: I’ve noticed I dream more if I eat an avocado right before bed.
That’s assuming the someone running the simulation is even aware we are here. For all we know, they’re just trying to model out the behavior of stars and black holes.
huh, I just assumed it was going through proton. Probably native, then. When I looked at the store page before release, I swear it only said windows.
gonna keep banging this drum every time this comes up:
When physicists say “observe”, they actually mean “measure”. And to measure a photon of light, you have to interact with it somehow, there is no passive way to do so.
The post’s header image implies that the interference pattern goes away just by looking at it. If that were the case, we would never see the interference pattern, never know it was there in the first place! In the actual experiment, they put a sensor at one or both of the slits. But to “sense” a single photon, you have to interact with it in some way. Otherwise you wouldn’t know it was there.
Again, this is where the language trips us up. Rather than “sensor”, would really be more accurate to say they put a photon-touch-er at the slits.
So, what we actually get is “Touching the photon changes the photon’s behavior.” The universe doesn’t magically infer when we happen to be looking at it, there is no spooky action-at-a-distance!
Dear god, that’s not actual dialog from the show, is it?