Currently reading Hyperion… Got it, the electron is the Shrike!
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Group A starts indexing at 1. Group B at 0.
To me, the second layer of the joke is that the choice of starting number is significant enough that the author considers it to be two distinct personalities!
I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo
How can they rif off MIB when we are not allowed to remember it?
Yeah, otherwise they think themselves human and want a seat at the table.
They’re so terrible at being lizard that they turn out to be birds…
1·9 months agoHehe, I’ll have a read on that thread.
Yup. A lot of feelings are unnecessary yet are there anyway for us to deal with them.
They also rent board games. It great for mystery games like Unlock that you can only play once or twice.
102·10 months agoGot it! Warmongers are weak, while a powerful society has no need to heavily fund the military.
More info can be found here: https://old.atoptics.co.uk/rainbows/ord34.htm
That sounds super interesting!
It is! Although it only deals with the day-to-day working of electromagnetism (quantum electrodynamics), but this explains the working of everything in our current life apart from nuclear power station and fusion in the sun’s core.
The text was written before we developed the model for nuclear forces (strong and weak), so it doesn’t touch that subject. We know now that sound and weak interactions work in a very similar way to QED, with extension for notre charges.
Some properties of the electron are not present in photons, such as the lepton number and the electric charge.
It’s possible to create an electron positron pair out of a couple of high energy photons, but that is also true with many other elementary particles.
For a good intuitive introduction to this topic, i suggest Feynman’s book QED https://www.amazon.ca/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/0691164096/
It’s a short read, and explains how positrons can be seen as electrons going backwards in time!
Welcome to quantum field theory! There is a single field for every type of particle in the standard model, but electrons are not made of photons.
Better than that artificial “puke” flavor!
MacOS, you mean Unix with a wallpaper? While Unix is not Linux, BSD is open source so it’s nice!
When the completed manuscript exceeded 600,000 words, Cerf asked Rand to make cuts, but backed off when she compared the idea to cutting the Bible.
Wow, I didn’t know this author, and it seems I wasn’t missing much.
The birb accepted their wedding proposal 💍