Nova_CI have the needThe need for speedRegistered Userregular
Hey, guys, I'm a bit confused by something LED light related, and I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what's going on here.
So, I backed something called the Level Up - it's basically a raised platform for your table top to put board games on so there's more table space for the players. The surface is held up by screw in legs - the bottom of the platform has several places for the legs so you can change where they're screwed in, which means there's 3 possible threaded 1/4 inch sockets for each leg. And someone posted this picture:
Which is, someone screwed in little LED lights into the empty sockets so the platform was lit underneath. This is a great idea! But how in the F did they do that? The picture came with zero information about how this was accomplished. The only little LED screw in lights I can find require a powered socket to screw into. But these sockets are just for the legs for the platform - there's no power, and I can't see any modifications to indicate someone ran power to the sockets. Are there little LED lights that run off battery that are that tiny? Where would I find such a thing?
apparently the only thing that has happened in physics in the 25 years since i was in physics school is the higgs boson being established as probably existing but not directly observed?
really glad i bailed out on my physics career after my undergrad!
but STEM! STEM is the answer to all our education problems! STEEEMMMMMMMMMMMM
Clearly all we need in society is more people making new technologies. None of that lame stuff like sociology or philosophy.
I mean, name one bad thing a scientist has ever done?
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
I am reading Harrow The Ninth for the first time. I think I know what the author is doing here but in halfway through almost and it still hasn't happened so I'm super confused at this point. No spoilers please! Just commenting.
How do we know that the Muon is interacting with an unknown particle, and not that the Muon decay products include an unknown particle we aren't expecting/looking for/capable of measuring?
we don't but i guess the idea is none of the particles we do know would explain it
Right, it just seems like a case of "the data we are getting out isn't matching the model of whats going in, so clearly the model going in is wrong", when its not clear to me why you couldn't also have a situation where the data coming out is wrong.
that's what the news today is about. more data was analyzed and the anomaly increased in significance rather than being shown to be a random fluke or a problem in the data.
Right, I guess I didn't mean like, maybe you guys missed a neutrino or something. More like, maybe there is an unknown particle created during muon decay, and you guys weren't looking for it, so ofc the numbers you are getting don't match the model because you aren't seeing the whole picture.
new particles are certainly one possibility here. the main difficulty there is then explaining why we haven't seen these new particles in other cases but yes thats one of the areas lots of people are working on
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isnt there some scifi novel or something where the lore is aliens mess with physics so humans never reach a certain tech level or something?
Mass Effect had the eldritch cosmic terrors encourage technological development along specified lines by leaving specific pieces of tech scattered about.
The Dark Forest trilogy had aliens creating magic "sophons" which were sort of like electrons except that they can control them across infinite distances, and they kept using them to fuck with particle colliders and also using them to create phantom images in physicists eyes and stuff to drive everyone crazy and cripple humans advancement.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
apparently the only thing that has happened in physics in the 25 years since i was in physics school is the higgs boson being established as probably existing but not directly observed?
really glad i bailed out on my physics career after my undergrad!
High Energy Physics (aka "fundamental physics") has been in a rut like that yes. Condensed Matter Physics (aka roughly anything bigger than a proton) has had enormous progress in lots of fields.
It has managed to generate a ton of contempt for theoretical physics among some other physicists though. At least, in my experience.
If Tony Stark's iron man suit had durability would he still be wrong about the events of Civil War the movie though?
I'm on Captain America's side in that movie but holy shit is his argument so bad. It's like the screenwriters phoned in that whole philosophical discussion with the laziest dialogue possible because they were impatient to get back to banging action figures against each other.
I'm vaguely on iron man's side on it - that these super powerful vigilantes should have some sort of legal framework or oversight to operate within - but he's such an unsympathetic shit of a character and the actual sovokia accord proposition is so cartoonishly bad that you're kind of shunted into siding against him.
i mean i know it's by design but come on marvel. is there some reason why you have to make your movies dumb and boring?
You can't come at comic book movies expecting good narrative or thematic development. That's not what they do. They vaguely gesture at the shape of that development, enough to get things moving, and then focus on action scenes and quips and melodrama, which is what we're all there for
legion was dynamite!
i guess being a series rather than a movie gave it a little more space to be interesting maybe
but i suspect the bigger factor is that it got made outside the marvel studios umbrella
@Irond Will yes!! I started watching Legion specifically because you recommended it as Wandavision but less boring and conventional in the back half. I am 1.5 seasons in and very much enjoying it.
If Tony Stark's iron man suit had durability would he still be wrong about the events of Civil War the movie though?
I'm on Captain America's side in that movie but holy shit is his argument so bad. It's like the screenwriters phoned in that whole philosophical discussion with the laziest dialogue possible because they were impatient to get back to banging action figures against each other.
I'm vaguely on iron man's side on it - that these super powerful vigilantes should have some sort of legal framework or oversight to operate within - but he's such an unsympathetic shit of a character and the actual sovokia accord proposition is so cartoonishly bad that you're kind of shunted into siding against him.
i mean i know it's by design but come on marvel. is there some reason why you have to make your movies dumb and boring?
You can't come at comic book movies expecting good narrative or thematic development. That's not what they do. They vaguely gesture at the shape of that development, enough to get things moving, and then focus on action scenes and quips and melodrama, which is what we're all there for
legion was dynamite!
i guess being a series rather than a movie gave it a little more space to be interesting maybe
but i suspect the bigger factor is that it got made outside the marvel studios umbrella
I only watched season 1 and I really liked it, but it was still the same stuff, just more surreal and weird
It was still muddled and didn't have anything to say, and it still ended with two people having a beam fight
The beam fight was definitely a beam fight, and it was a very boring letdown. Nothing about the narrative or characters was expressed in the confrontation. It was not depicted in a formally experimental or weird way. The outcome was selected for plot purposes. They hadokened each other's hadokens.
I also agree that season 1 has nothing to say about the human condition. But I don't think it pretends to, either. What it has to say is "wouldn't it be cool if we were formally experimental and weird all the time?" And it is. Especially because I get high as a kite off legal weed first and then they flash colors and sounds in my face and the actors are, like, weirdly sobbing in half the scenes. Magnificent.
I was talking to the roommate with whom I share a bathroom and I was telling him how I want to get a bidet. And then he asked, what’s a bidet?
Hmm can I convert someone to the Golden Horde
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How do we know that the Muon is interacting with an unknown particle, and not that the Muon decay products include an unknown particle we aren't expecting/looking for/capable of measuring?
we don't but i guess the idea is none of the particles we do know would explain it
Right, it just seems like a case of "the data we are getting out isn't matching the model of whats going in, so clearly the model going in is wrong", when its not clear to me why you couldn't also have a situation where the data coming out is wrong.
that's what the news today is about. more data was analyzed and the anomaly increased in significance rather than being shown to be a random fluke or a problem in the data.
Right, I guess I didn't mean like, maybe you guys missed a neutrino or something. More like, maybe there is an unknown particle created during muon decay, and you guys weren't looking for it, so ofc the numbers you are getting don't match the model because you aren't seeing the whole picture.
new particles are certainly one possibility here. the main difficulty there is then explaining why we haven't seen these new particles in other cases but yes thats one of the areas lots of people are working on
I guess thats the main issue with looking at all of this from a highschool diploma and trying to guess at answers. Cause obviously all that extra gravity the additional mass of the Muons have should go somewhere, right?
Edit: Basically I want to be on one of those podcasts where dumb people ask physicists all sorts of ridiculous questions and get answers. Cause I have lots of dumb questions.
Brody on
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Hmm maybe I wouldn’t mind cold water bidet’ing. I’ve only used DK’s which was super nice and full featured. I just don’t want to spend the money and energy on a cheaper thing and then have buyer’s remorse.
Hmm maybe I wouldn’t mind cold water bidet’ing. I’ve only used DK’s which was super nice and full featured. I just don’t want to spend the money and energy on a cheaper thing and then have buyer’s remorse.
How much electricity is a bidet really drawing, though.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Hmm maybe I wouldn’t mind cold water bidet’ing. I’ve only used DK’s which was super nice and full featured. I just don’t want to spend the money and energy on a cheaper thing and then have buyer’s remorse.
How much electricity is a bidet really drawing, though.
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Hey, guys, I'm a bit confused by something LED light related, and I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what's going on here.
So, I backed something called the Level Up - it's basically a raised platform for your table top to put board games on so there's more table space for the players. The surface is held up by screw in legs - the bottom of the platform has several places for the legs so you can change where they're screwed in, which means there's 3 possible threaded 1/4 inch sockets for each leg. And someone posted this picture:
Which is, someone screwed in little LED lights into the empty sockets so the platform was lit underneath. This is a great idea! But how in the F did they do that? The picture came with zero information about how this was accomplished. The only little LED screw in lights I can find require a powered socket to screw into. But these sockets are just for the legs for the platform - there's no power, and I can't see any modifications to indicate someone ran power to the sockets. Are there little LED lights that run off battery that are that tiny? Where would I find such a thing?
I am interested in finding out more about what models including supersymmetry might be able to replace the standard model. Would these be basically the same as the standard model with supersymmetry added on, or would it open the gate for more out-there models?
Hmm maybe I wouldn’t mind cold water bidet’ing. I’ve only used DK’s which was super nice and full featured. I just don’t want to spend the money and energy on a cheaper thing and then have buyer’s remorse.
Is your bathroom's hot water line inaccessible from the toilet?
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Oh yeah, also I had a meeting with a student today about how they can raise their grade.
They were calling in from the parking lot outside their job. Outside of being a student, they work from 4pm to 3am 6 days a week.
the aristocrats!!
In the 70s I worked 5 hours a year at the local doohickey factory. Made it through my classes that consisted of doing peyote with my professor just fine.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
How do we know that the Muon is interacting with an unknown particle, and not that the Muon decay products include an unknown particle we aren't expecting/looking for/capable of measuring?
we don't but i guess the idea is none of the particles we do know would explain it
Right, it just seems like a case of "the data we are getting out isn't matching the model of whats going in, so clearly the model going in is wrong", when its not clear to me why you couldn't also have a situation where the data coming out is wrong.
that's what the news today is about. more data was analyzed and the anomaly increased in significance rather than being shown to be a random fluke or a problem in the data.
Right, I guess I didn't mean like, maybe you guys missed a neutrino or something. More like, maybe there is an unknown particle created during muon decay, and you guys weren't looking for it, so ofc the numbers you are getting don't match the model because you aren't seeing the whole picture.
new particles are certainly one possibility here. the main difficulty there is then explaining why we haven't seen these new particles in other cases but yes thats one of the areas lots of people are working on
I guess thats the main issue with looking at all of this from a highschool diploma and trying to guess at answers. Cause obviously all that extra gravity the additional mass of the Muons have should go somewhere, right?
the mass does matter a lot
oddly enough, the gravity not so much. at least as far as is known. all off the difficulty with quantum gravity is because it is so hard to imagine an experiment where gravity matters for particles. no one has ever managed it so far but people are inching closer. if you ever see news about experiments in measuring the gravity between smaller and smaller objects that is what they are really about. getting to a point where we can measure both gravity and quantum effects in the same experient. that would be such a huge advance.
the reason gravity is such an issue here is how weak it is as a force. depending on what you mean by the "strength" of a force, gravity is something like 10 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 times weaker than electromagnetism.
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How do we know that the Muon is interacting with an unknown particle, and not that the Muon decay products include an unknown particle we aren't expecting/looking for/capable of measuring?
we don't but i guess the idea is none of the particles we do know would explain it
Right, it just seems like a case of "the data we are getting out isn't matching the model of whats going in, so clearly the model going in is wrong", when its not clear to me why you couldn't also have a situation where the data coming out is wrong.
that's what the news today is about. more data was analyzed and the anomaly increased in significance rather than being shown to be a random fluke or a problem in the data.
Right, I guess I didn't mean like, maybe you guys missed a neutrino or something. More like, maybe there is an unknown particle created during muon decay, and you guys weren't looking for it, so ofc the numbers you are getting don't match the model because you aren't seeing the whole picture.
new particles are certainly one possibility here. the main difficulty there is then explaining why we haven't seen these new particles in other cases but yes thats one of the areas lots of people are working on
I guess thats the main issue with looking at all of this from a highschool diploma and trying to guess at answers. Cause obviously all that extra gravity the additional mass of the Muons have should go somewhere, right?
Edit: Basically I want to be on one of those podcasts where dumb people ask physicists all sorts of ridiculous questions and get answers. Cause I have lots of dumb questions.
Sabine's youtube channel is good. So is PBS spacetime.
is it possible to bruise your tailbone by sitting too much?
my butt hurts ;_;
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So we switched our corporate phone numbers (which I never use) to Zoom phone and I guess I got a new number. It doesn’t matter—I mute the thing since every call I get is a cold call.
Apparently that number can receive texts now and someone has me on a text thread. Either my number used to belong to someone else or someone made a typo.
Anyway, I’m on this thread for people who I’m pretty sure work in VIP sales at Yankee Stadium because I’m getting texts of pictures of VIP wristbands and whatnot. I’m not sure how to use this to my advantage.
Feral I’m not sure. I haven’t looked. But also apparently some of the nice, electric bidet models heat the water themselves and don’t need a hot water line
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So, I backed something called the Level Up - it's basically a raised platform for your table top to put board games on so there's more table space for the players. The surface is held up by screw in legs - the bottom of the platform has several places for the legs so you can change where they're screwed in, which means there's 3 possible threaded 1/4 inch sockets for each leg. And someone posted this picture:
Which is, someone screwed in little LED lights into the empty sockets so the platform was lit underneath. This is a great idea! But how in the F did they do that? The picture came with zero information about how this was accomplished. The only little LED screw in lights I can find require a powered socket to screw into. But these sockets are just for the legs for the platform - there's no power, and I can't see any modifications to indicate someone ran power to the sockets. Are there little LED lights that run off battery that are that tiny? Where would I find such a thing?
Clearly all we need in society is more people making new technologies. None of that lame stuff like sociology or philosophy.
I mean, name one bad thing a scientist has ever done?
but they're listening to every word I say
What do you think the author is doing?
new particles are certainly one possibility here. the main difficulty there is then explaining why we haven't seen these new particles in other cases but yes thats one of the areas lots of people are working on
The Dark Forest trilogy had aliens creating magic "sophons" which were sort of like electrons except that they can control them across infinite distances, and they kept using them to fuck with particle colliders and also using them to create phantom images in physicists eyes and stuff to drive everyone crazy and cripple humans advancement.
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It has managed to generate a ton of contempt for theoretical physics among some other physicists though. At least, in my experience.
Yes, the 4E Spellplague. We were just talking about this the other day.
but they're listening to every word I say
@Irond Will yes!! I started watching Legion specifically because you recommended it as Wandavision but less boring and conventional in the back half. I am 1.5 seasons in and very much enjoying it.
The beam fight was definitely a beam fight, and it was a very boring letdown. Nothing about the narrative or characters was expressed in the confrontation. It was not depicted in a formally experimental or weird way. The outcome was selected for plot purposes. They hadokened each other's hadokens.
I also agree that season 1 has nothing to say about the human condition. But I don't think it pretends to, either. What it has to say is "wouldn't it be cool if we were formally experimental and weird all the time?" And it is. Especially because I get high as a kite off legal weed first and then they flash colors and sounds in my face and the actors are, like, weirdly sobbing in half the scenes. Magnificent.
These damn alien sophons are to blame
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I certainly haven't seen any evidence to DISPROVE we're living in a cat's dream
Physics doesn't even account for elementals.
I guess thats the main issue with looking at all of this from a highschool diploma and trying to guess at answers. Cause obviously all that extra gravity the additional mass of the Muons have should go somewhere, right?
Edit: Basically I want to be on one of those podcasts where dumb people ask physicists all sorts of ridiculous questions and get answers. Cause I have lots of dumb questions.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
They were calling in from the parking lot outside their job. Outside of being a student, they work from 4pm to 3am 6 days a week.
the aristocrats!!
turns out physics is dumb and scientists are even dumberz ololzlzl
How much electricity is a bidet really drawing, though.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
puts a little pep in your step in the winter
Is your bathroom's hot water line inaccessible from the toilet?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
In the 70s I worked 5 hours a year at the local doohickey factory. Made it through my classes that consisted of doing peyote with my professor just fine.
but they're listening to every word I say
the mass does matter a lot
oddly enough, the gravity not so much. at least as far as is known. all off the difficulty with quantum gravity is because it is so hard to imagine an experiment where gravity matters for particles. no one has ever managed it so far but people are inching closer. if you ever see news about experiments in measuring the gravity between smaller and smaller objects that is what they are really about. getting to a point where we can measure both gravity and quantum effects in the same experient. that would be such a huge advance.
the reason gravity is such an issue here is how weak it is as a force. depending on what you mean by the "strength" of a force, gravity is something like 10 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 times weaker than electromagnetism.
he's gonna be like "what that's weird and gross". and occasionally call it names like "robot toilet" or more probably something racist
then one day you will hear him use it and he will never speak of it again
finally it will break or stop working and you'll tell him and he'll scream in frenzied grief like sméagol after losing the one ring
and, as we know from einstein, the mass does energy, too
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Sabine's youtube channel is good. So is PBS spacetime.
https://www.youtube.com/user/peppermint78
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
my butt hurts ;_;
Apparently that number can receive texts now and someone has me on a text thread. Either my number used to belong to someone else or someone made a typo.
Anyway, I’m on this thread for people who I’m pretty sure work in VIP sales at Yankee Stadium because I’m getting texts of pictures of VIP wristbands and whatnot. I’m not sure how to use this to my advantage.
The only annoying part is drying after
which is also what i call my bidet
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
The difference is night and biday.
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