Legianus

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[–] Legianus@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

I guess that is one of many applications. Also strong magnets, levitation (that is more funny or futuristic depending on application)

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So the higher minimum wage is already a thing in some countries (e.g. Germany, where degrees are also mostly free) and there is still the trend of many more ppl. studying.

In general, our world is getting more complicated and we live longer. So i dont really see the problem of more education?

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So do Japanese history school books, they call it the Nanjing incident and divide the numbers of murdered by 10-ish

Japan is also led by a right wing government, just not as anti-immigration as these guys

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Not really contradictions, there are those behaviours which you describe (i.e. speeds at the outer regions if galaxies faster than originally expected) and from those we come to things such as dark matter which describe these, but we don't yet know what they are.

It might be that the theory needs to be changed if there is no such thing as dark matter and it Is jnice calculation trick that actually mean something elsr in the real world, but as of right now it describes most things well.

Alas, there is the disconnect between different theories that don't work together (see Gravity and Quantum mechanics) or only on different scales

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Fair, but I mostly meant people who really experienced and remembered it. Aged around 50+ (like Trump).

So forgetting that... Not a big deal. Remembering its old name first... OK, not remembering the current name after the old one - weird. And, finally, doing that constantly in many occasions, sign of mental problems.

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't know, I would say after the fall of the Soviet Union its renaming was fairly common knowledge if you lived through that (even outside the former Soviet States)

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You are correct about the replication problems, but this also varies heavily depending what scientific discipline you look at.

Also if you do science you may take the results oft another scientist (if they make sense and are peer revievewed) and build your next experiment on it, which may also work out and get peer reviewed.

So even with the replication problem science can work and build on thousands of experiments. But it would be better and needed that the experiments were reproducible.

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I feel like there is a misunderstanding in this thread.

The universe is described by math. Math itself is also very fundamental though.

However even the Singularities are disputed and generally not liked by physicist. We try to find other explanations for how black holes work (lots of papers on this). Moreover, we never really have a singularity, but ringularities, as all black holes rotate changing the singularity to a singularity (they probably also have a charge but that is a different matter).

And on the other hand, if you are a follower of the simulation argument (I know a few physicists that are) there are also counter arguments against this (which I believe are more likely).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think you explain it pretty well, but one thing to add. Due to the General Relativity and thus spacetime it is actually not directions that all point toward the singularity, but as soon as you cross the event horizon all of your future becomes the Singularity, not as a point in space, but a point in time

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-singularities/lightcone.html

This points at that, you would also need to be able to travel faster than light and that would make you time travel backwards in time

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is true, but I think he was making more of a statistical statement. As in, if most people wouldn't do it, then the same sample should be applied to rich people and therefore they should change the broken system.

I think that is a bit over simplistic though. Not because rich people are inherently worse than non rich ones, although wealth might corrupt, but more so because I think you get indoctrinated when growing up and so do rich people. They probably think all is well as it is and everyone else could achieve what they did by generational wealth.

Probs only, if even, one of the reasons though

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Should be Lassie, no?

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

That is a very very short article

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