#Professor Quark

[boundless-ut]

Weekend Update 🍬 - Professor Quark

Taking a small break this week to work on parts of the animation system that don't need additional code to support at this point in time. Professor Quark is one of the allies you'll have supporting you during your journey!

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[astrofiish]

So there's this meme going around on Twitter and I was like. What if we put Descole in the Nonary Game: Ambidex Editon

((I have NOT finished VLR yet but we're finishing it on Sunday!))

[a-most-beloved-fool]

I like and respect Quodo as a ship, but they're also deeply unserious to me. Just, inherently cracky.

Because I cannot imagine either of them ever giving up their shenanigans. Like, I heard about some rival professors once who were complete opposites in their theories, had big research battles, everyone thought they hated each other, etc. As it turned out, they were married. Their marriage survived because they just. Completely left their work at work. They never spoke about it at home. They'd write the world's most scathing rebuttals of the other's research, and then go home and make them tea.

Quodo? Would not do that. They'd be at their wedding, and Quark would still try to scam all the guests, and Odo would still try to put him in jail for it. Odo would routinely bug his own quarters, and Quark would sell information about Odo on the black market. Absolute looney toons shenanigans.

[mindblowingscience]

An experiment by a group of physicists led by University of Rochester physics professor Regina Demina has produced a significant result related to quantum entanglement—an effect that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance." Entanglement concerns the coordinated behavior of miniscule particles that have interacted but then moved apart. Measuring properties—like position or momentum or spin—of one of the separated pair of particles instantaneously changes the results of the other particle, no matter how far the second particle has drifted from its twin. In effect, the state of one entangled particle, or qubit, is inseparable from the other. Quantum entanglement has been observed between stable particles, such as photons or electrons. But Demina and her group broke new ground in that they found, for the first time, entanglement to persist between unstable top quarks and their antimatter partners at distances farther than what can be covered by information transferred at the speed of light. Specifically, the researchers observed spin correlation between the particles.

Continue Reading.

[trekbait]

Must see things on DS9 while on shore leave!

Deep Space 9, simultaneously the most important military outpost in the Alpha Quadrant and the most popular shopping mall this side of Freecloud, has rapidly become a Shore Leave destination to rival Risa. This is your guide to making the most of your leave!

The Promenade

The hub of the station is the Promenade where you can view the station’s many stores. You’ve got gift shops, a tailors to dress up for a night out, the Jumja stick stand, Bat'leth’s R Us and the bowling alley. As far as food or drinks, you’ve travelled around the quadrant in seconds! Choose from Bajoran, Bolian, Klingon, Vulcan, the replimat, and of course Quark’s which we will come back to soon. 

Can’t I just replicate all of this, you ask? Sure but cosplaying ancient capitalism is a hobby so many Federation citizens enjoy these days. Just remember to bring some currency and brush up on the terms you need to “haggle” and “gamble” before you go so you don’t look like an “easy mark” (Have you got advice on how to spend currency? Leave a comment!). If you’re looking for handmade “unreplicated” items, however, get your purchase externally verified before parting with your chosen medium of exchange.

If you’re not someone into aesthetic scarcity, there’s more to do! Opposite Quark’s is the Bajoran temple where you can take in a slice of Bajoran culture. After all, they’ll soon be a Federation member! If your captain has been savvy in scheduling your visit, you may even get a chance to see the Gratitude Festival. Finally, fans of the first Ferengi in Starfleet may want to find a spot opposite Quark’s and dangle their feet over the edge. Enjoy the ambience of Commander Nog’s favourite spot before security moves you along.

Watching the Wormhole

You may be wondering why we didn’t point out the best spot to see the wormhole on the promenade. Well, that’s because the best spot isn’t on the promenade. Every insider knows to head to a vacant upper pylon (our favourite is number 2). Up there you’ll get a beautiful view of what the Bajorans call the “Celestial Temple”. Maybe you’ll have a religious awakening? 

Don’t forget, they say that if you see the wormhole open, you get to make a wish. I guess the dockmaster at DS9 must be a very lucky person by now.

Ops

The nerve centre of DS9 is off duty to casual visitors (such as young ensigns on shore leave) but since the war ended tours have been scheduled twice a day. Visitors will be shown around Ops by a member of the crew and told stories about the events that happened there. You will also get to see inside the station commander’s office including Sisko’s famous baseball. If you’re lucky you’ll catch a glimpse of Colonel Kira! The wait list is very long so book ahead.

Note that holo imagers are not permitted in Ops and the tour may be cancelled at short notice in the event of an emergency situation. For a more in-depth experience, see the “Ops: Battle Stations!” holosuite programme in Quark’s which recreates various dramatic battles from the station’s history.

Quark’s

This isn’t just any Quark’s, it’s the original Quark’s! A bar so good it’s spread across the quadrant like Caitan nip. It’s got drinks, live music, auctions, a Dabo wheel (with some very good-looking Dabo girls and guys to help you part with your currency) and some amazing holosuites (with none of the content filters recently applied to Starfleet Holodecks). This is also the spot where Captain Sisko punched Q!

Those looking for something special should ask after Quark’s private stock. It comes at a premium, but who can turn down some Aldebaran whiskey? Share a glass with Morn who is renowned for regaling fellow patrons with war tales. Meanwhile, Ensigns who have studied under Professor O’Brien at Starfleet Academy might also be looking out for his famous dart board. It’s located just to the left of the bar and you can try it out yourself! See if you can beat O’Brien and Doctor Bashir’s high scores!

Speaking of O’Biren and Bashir, check out Vic’s Lounge in the holosuites. This recreation of an old Earth club was so popular among the crew of DS9 that Bashir kept it running 26 hours a day. The eponymous Vic himself, the proprietor, is a sentient hologram much like Voyager’s EMH. So speak freely and enjoy the vibe of old Earth.

Don’t forget to stop in the gift shop on your way out! 

The Tribble Experience

Something away from the promenade is a Tribble cafe, opened in a cargo bay after the crew of the Defiant brought back the one-extinct Tribble from the 23rd century. Realising they could stop its spread by ensuring they were away from any food supply they managed to relocate the tribbles away from the promenade to a cargo bay. 

Lacking a better idea, they opened an “experience” where you get to pet, play with and roll around a cargo bay with several hundred tribbles. Their cute purrs will calm even the most nervous disposition!

Please note they have a strict no-food policy for all visitors. Anyone inadvertently bringing food into the Tribble Experience will be held legally liable for all the Tribble offspring that result as well as any containment or cleanup costs the station incurs.

Dukat’s Ghost

Several years back, the crew on DS9 triggered a Cardassian self-defense mechanism built into the main computer designed to suppress a Bajoran uprising. While the station locked down and attempted to kill its now Cardassian-free inhabitants messages of the old prefect, Gul Dukat (yes, that Dukat), played on monitors across the station. 

After the program was purged, a bug remained in the system. Head down to level 32, section H. Stand outside the cargo bay there and turn right. Walk to the next junction then left, right then straight on for 12 meters. On your left you’ll see a flickering display screen. At 12 minutes past the hour, every hour, an automated message from Dukat to his Bajoran workers will play. However, the audio generation gets spliced with the general communication system of the station so you’ll get a unique presentation from Dukat. We stayed for 3 hours and heard these;

“Bajoran Workers, I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.”

“Bajoran Workers, it is said that in the right hands the Mercury Stone has the power to cleanse the land of evil and bring prosperity to all.”

“Bajoran Workers, come to Quark’s, Quark’s is fun, come right now, don’t walk, run!”

Enjoy your stay on DS9 and remember to leave a review on FourQuad.

[mysticstronomy]

WHERE DO COSMIC RAYS COME FROM??

Blog#374

Saturday, February 10th, 2024.

Welcome back,

Earth is under constant bombardment by cosmic rays, showers of high-energy particles that blast our planet from all directions at near light speed.

While this might sound like the precursor to a sci-fi alien invasion, it is a real phenomenon that scientists have been aware of for over a century.

Despite their dramatic description, cosmic rays are actually pretty ordinary — they pass through our planet so regularly that during an average night's sleep, a person will have around a million cosmic rays traveling through their body, according to the University of Birmingham in the U.K.

Despite their ubiquity, cosmic rays still present scientific mysteries. While slow-energy cosmic rays that strike Earth are known to originate from the sun, others with higher energies stream into the solar system from deep space.

The origins of these extrasolar cosmic rays are lesser known, with suspect sources including black holes and the supernova explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars.

Cosmic rays "have been detected here on Earth for more than 100 years now. Yet, their origin remains largely unknown," Julia Tjus, a professor of physics and astronomy at Ruhr University in Germany, told Space.com via email.

"These tiny particles reach energies that go far beyond what we can reach here on Earth. We are trying to solve a riddle that is by now more than 100 years old and put together the pieces slowly but steadily."

Cosmic rays are streams of high-energy particles that hit Earth's atmosphere at near light speed. They were discovered in the 1900s, and the term "cosmic rays" was coined by physicist Robert Millikan in 1925.

Since then, scientists have determined that trillions of cosmic rays hit Earth every day, but the vast majority are blocked by the planet's magnetosphere and atmosphere.

Over 90% of cosmic rays are hydrogen nuclei  ( single protons), 9% are the atomic nuclei of helium, and 1% are the nuclei of heavy elements up to iron, according to the University of Chicago. These are called "hadronic particles" because they are composed of hadrons, like protons and neutrons, which are made up of fundamental particles called quarks.

"There are also electrons and positrons [the antiparticles of electrons] coming to us in cosmic rays but in smaller numbers than the hadronic particles. These are often called cosmic-ray electrons," Tjus said. "Sometimes, people also include the neutral high-energy particles  —  photons and neutrinos  —  in the term cosmic rays, but in most definitions, these are kept separately."

Originally published on www.space.com

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, February 14th, 2024)

"HOW IS OUR UNIVERSE EXPANDING RAPIDLY??"

[fourphoenixfeathers]

I mentioned the spoilers. Well, here they are.

If organic pokemon can terastilize, I'm just gonna *vague hand waving* the thing that happened to the professors can happen to humans too. Under verrry specific circumstances. Those circumstances being that I'm evil.

Also, since Emmet spent a brief bit of time in the future, he gets a paradox mon! Meet Iron converter, the electric/water eelektross we all wanted. Unpopular opinion, I really like the glowy robot aesthetic of the future mons, so I leaned hard into that and based converter's concept off of hydroelectric generators. Quark drive is boring, raise her attack when she gets hit by a water type move!

Her name is whistle. :)

And a hypothetical shiny here! I don't like the silver with singular accent color, it's too plain, so I did my own thing.

[tbthqs]

Estava lá você, em pleno domingo de tarde, fazendo vários nadas e vendo TV no seu dormitório, como se o mundo estivesse parado lá fora. Até que, entre uma zapeada e outra de canal, você para no canal da TV UCLA, feita por aquele pessoal meio doido do departamento de Jornalismo, e não consegue mudar de canal porque isso está frisado na tela, estático, enquanto aquele maco... digo, usuário de ervas medicinais não convencionais que apresenta o programa fala:

"Este é professor Michael Rosenthal, todo mundo conhece esse mano gente boa, né. Vice-Coordernador de Humanas e professor de SciPol 101. Ele tá sumido galera, a filha dele espalhou o cartaz pelo Campus e ela está muito preocupada com ele, tá sabendo?!. Então, dá uma ligada pra ela se você viu o maluco por aí, beleza?!"

É nesse momento que duas palavras vem a sua cabeça:

"Agora fudeu!"

Informações OOC

Isso ai, o tara... o Professor Rosenthal sumiu. Com isso, o plano de matar ele foi pro saco.

Quem é Michael Rosenthal: Michael é um dos professores da universidade (Mah você jura, mod?!?!), que é o principal foco do plot agora. Aparentemente, ele é motivo da viagem no tempo ter acontecido, já que ele é filho de um dos cientistas do Projeto Chronos, projeto da UCLA que estudava viagem no tempo nos anos 40 e 50. Foi descoberto durante o Tupperboxmania que Michael abusou sexualmente de várias estudantes originalmente em 2014, e que Katherine Lewis (The Nerd - @thxnerd) foi uma das alunas abusadas por ele e que ele se infiltrou na equipe do Projeto em 2024 para roubar as informações de pesquisa, voltar para 2014, e entregar tudo para seu amigo de infância, Isaac Dragna, pai de Lucien (The Trickster - @thetrickxter) e Marcelo (@mdragna), que sempre teve o sonho de recriar o projeto, para assim conseguir o lugar de reitor da universidae. Alguns viajantes planejavam seguir as ordens dadas pela Doutora Quarks, um dos membros do Projeto Chronos 2024, de matar Rosenthal para poder voltar para 2024, enquanto outra parte queria encontrar o professor e arrancar informações dele. Agora, nenhum dos dois grupos tem mais a missão original, tendo em vista que Rosenthal "Sumiu".

No Mais, é isso, durmam com um barulho desse!

[rachelbethhines]

Speed-running Doctor Who - 2nd Doctor

A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.

For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era

Tomb of the Cybermen - S5E1

Fun fact, this is the story that Moffat gave Matt Smith to introduce him to the show and the character. If it's good enough to inform an actor's entire portrayal of the Doctor 40 years later, then it's certainly good enough to be considered a decent summary of the Second Doctor's era.

Plot Important Episodes

Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development (missing episodes will have a * next to it. You will have to find recons and animated versions to watch instead)

Power of the Daleks - S4E3 * (first regeneration story, and the Second Doctor's introduction)

The Highlanders - S4E4 * (Jamie's first episode)

The Macra Terror - S4E7 * (the Macra do appear again in NuWho technically)

The Faceless Ones - S4E8 * (Ben's and Polly's last story)

The Evil of the Daleks - S4E9 * (meet Victoria)

The Abominable Snowmen - S5E2 * (The Doctor versus the Great Intelligence... again... First appearance of the Yeti and Professor Travers)

The Ice Warriors - S5E3 * (the Ice Warriors', aka martians', introduction)

The Web of Fear - S5E5 * (Professor Travers and the Yeti are back along with the Great Intelligence, and this time the military gets involved. The Brigadier's first appearance)

Fury from the Deep - S5E6 * (Victoria's last story)

The Wheel in Space - S5E7 * (Meet Zoe)

The Dominators - S6E1 (The Quarks are a long running in-joke in the franchise)

The Invasion - S6E3 * (The Brigadier returns and UNIT is finally established. Benton's first appearance)

The War Games - S6E7 (Last story for Two, Jamie, and Zoe. We finally learn of the Doctor's people, The Time Lords, and we meet The War Master... who may or may not be The Master and/or The Meddler)

Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa

Favorite: The Underwater Menace - S4S5 *

Least Favorite: The Moonbase - S4E6 *

(disclaimer: no spin-offs or extended universe stuff was considered when making this list.... except for the Quarks)

Next Up: The Third Doctor

[fictional-malewife-tournament]

Here’s our line up guys. 👍

Here is the list right now, there is a lot so they’ll be seperated into 8 groups and then we will go through all of those 8 groups to get to the end.

group 1:

Rom vs Puss in boots 

Alex (stardew) vs Jim Kirk

Roulx Kaard vs Jin Zixuan

Caleb wittebane vs 2bdamned

David Kostyk vs Mirabel’s dad

Kanji tatsumi vs Papyrus

Bob vs weyoun

Donkey vs Duster

Gren vs Janus the silverdeath

Lloyd vs Hannibal lector

Todoroki vs Gajeel redfox

David (lilo) vs link (botw)

Sugawara vs Pixel-Mess

M!Robin vs Stanley pines

Ben Chang vs Quirrel

Saul Goodman vs Will graham

Group 2: 

Kiryu vs Hero

The medic vs Ron

Percy Jackson vs professor Layton 

Neelix vs Iggy frome

King Harrow vs Lucas (Runs factory five)

Yu Narakami vs Elliot (stardew)

Jakob vs Aoi kurashiki 

Sokka vs Moxie

Nightwing vs tatsu

Archer (emiya) vs Master splinter (2018)

Barius vs Forrest

Ryuuji vs Jay walker 

Sanji vs Garmadon

Quark vs Kaito

Fox mulder vs tenma tsukasa

Leon (Pokémon) vs Delbert Doppler

group 3:

Berdly vs Marten Reed

Kai (ninjago) vs James 

Usui vs Gobber

Charlie vs Steve Harrington

Alec lightwood vs kronk

Paper vs Dr octopus

Discord vs Dedue

Arven vs Harvey Dent

Hunter vs Christopher Pike

Narciso vs Kermit

Cletus Jones vs Gomez Addams

Tom vs The king

Klavier Gavin vs Greg Universe

Kamado Tanjiro vs Brock (unikitty)

Ashe vs Louis Moriarty

Sisko vs dale lee

Group 4: 

Trip vs Brady

Franky (one piece) vs Tom Wambsgans

Shinra vs Jaskier

Your father vs Banquo

Silver the hedgehog vs Troy Barnes

Archer vs Space Boyfriend

Donald Duck vs Mr clean

Ren vs Nandor the relentless

Cove Holden vs Magnus Burnside

Bail organa vs Hiccup

Riker vs Corpus

yoo joonghyuck vs Kazuki

Fan vs kunikida doppo

Lazlo cravensworth vs loid forger

Peter b Parker vs Ken

Ryunosuke Naruhodo vs venti

group 5:

Prince Fluff vs Sarek

Nagito vs Zagreus

Macbeth vs Lucas (mother 3)

Stede vs Anakin skywalker

Tack vs Felix Madrigal

Jason mendoza vs N (murder drones)

Ren (oxenfree) vs Soren

Saru vs Kaveh

Castiel vs Yarne

Ivor vs King furgus

Kuboyasu Aren vs James Wilson

Yeza Brenatto vs Kristoff

Makoto Naegi vs Stoick

Tomohisa Kaname vs hunk

Peeta vs Jadzia

Kim Gonja vs Henry clerval

Group 6: 

Ron delite vs wang pangzi

Sam (Sam and max) vs Emmett

Kazuha vs serizawa katsuya

Jayce talis vs Asmodeus (iruma-kun)

Kai satou vs Professor Saguaro

Steve cob vs Minato Namikaze 

Dean Winchester vs Chakotay

Eugene Fitzherbert vs Chat noir

Spitelout vs Spock

Matt hooper vs Childe 

Siegblut vs Worf 

Edric Blight vs Yanki

Control (from southern reach) vs Tuco Salamanca

Seteth vs Louis de pointe du lac

Maes hughes vs Kazuma Asogi

Dr Watson vs Thoma

Group 7: 

Tennisball vs Barry bluejeans 

Luigi vs Hatsuharu

Snotlout vs howl

Jay (ghosts) vs dj Octavio

Gregory house vs Elliot Spencer

The mad hatter vs Joe tazuna

Basil hallward vs Harvey (Stardew)

Ethan winters vs olruggio

Albedo vs pleakly 

The heavy vs Jake English

Bruce Wayne vs Shen wei 

Naven NukNuk vs Dante (mystreet)

Phillip vs bow

Anji Mito vs Fishlegs

Stanford vs Speedwagon

Bariel vs Jesse Pinkman

Group 8: 

Ralsei vs Goofy

Sam (stardew) vs Seymour (little shop of horrors)

Ethari vs Cecil

Fix it Felix vs Kaoru hakaze

Ignus scientia vs Lukas

Majima vs Hercules

Magolor vs Calcelmo

Fred vs Randy Hapukurk

Kurogiri vs The riddler

Declan lynch vs Philza

Jaune vs Sergeant Schultz

Reiji Sakamaki vs Q

Luo Binghe vs King of hearts

Thatcher Davis vs Jonathan buyers

[boundless-ut]

Weekend Update 🍬 - Reintroducing motion particles and footsteps! Unfortunately, some stuff came up during the week and I wasn't able to get Dotties done in time. I ended up making some last minute changes behind the scenes to how footsteps and particles are handled, along with making a few updates to Professor Quark's art though!

Also something very important...

Happy.

[stoltze]

i think more often than not, students in stem might feel the need to make math and science meaningful to fuel our curiosity. we know the brain doesn't work that way but someone who would be considered left-brained most likely wouldn't have to search within themselves or seldom do, to be reminded of what about their field is interesting/could potentially be interesting to them, so that they find motivation to go on with their studies. from merely what i observed in a friend who's superb at maths and a beloved biology professor, these people get so used to being methodical in their approach that it looks like they function almost on auto-pilot when dealing with the problem in hand. even though some of them might be born with unfair advantages in terms of high logical-mathematical intelligence, one can only achieve expertise through dedication and constant hard work. and working hard for long periods of time is only doable when you have a strong "why". in a nobel minds video from 2019 where the laureates have a round-table discussion, they are asked if they act just as rationally in their personal lives as they do in their professional lives. their answers and witty anecdotes showed me that each of these people who are top scientists in their fields aren't just spock in different fonts. their approach to work shares discipline as the foundation but with different quirks, perks and "why"s of their own, something that might speak to the less rational side of the brain. ray bradbury said: “there’s hardly a scientist or an astronaut i’ve met who wasn’t beholden to some romantic before him who led him to doing something in life. [...] in order to get the facts we have to be excited to go out and get them, and there’s only one way to do that - through romance." in literature we might see the classicists with their emphasis on perfection and appeal to the intellect (akin to scientists) and romantics with their imagination and powerful emotions as the polar opposites, when in reality, we might benefit more from considering them as the two sides of the same coin. we shouldn't have to feel forced to like or be good at positive sciences because they have more practical value in the 'real world' than social sciences or are deemed as more important in multiple choice exams. we could benefit from viewing the world of numbers, enzymes and quarks with different approaches if they start to become dull and incomprehensible. tilt your head a little, try upside down, look from above. they make up the world you live in, the world you belong to. don't allow anyone to make you feel like you don't have what it takes to understand them.

[varietyacademy]

Mentor Trainer Card!!

Kasory!

Kasory is The only Mentor that seems to always refuse a Pokemon battle, And Admit of being bad at it... (What a load of Bullshit -Lisa), He's Popular with the students and staff/Teachers for his Gentle, Easy going and Caring Nature, Yet There's always Something Hidden beneath... No one but the Mentors knew who he really is...

No matter how friendly He is or how close he is to someone... That person seems to only scratch the surface of who Kasory really is...

Other Mentors Trainer Card : Lisa, Raice, Taylor, Masuyo, Azrae, Kasory, Tosya, Antonio, Kheara, Anthony

(//ooc Note: It would be so fucking cool to make this a pokemon game lmao, I've been trying to do shit with RPG maker but I'm too dumb lol)

Want to know more about Our Professor(?)'s Pokemon Team Moveset? Look down below!↓ (also Kasory's Blank Trainer Card! And Also Kasory's actually Main team! And an additional info of his mysterious past)

Pokemon Team

→ Flygon ♂️ [Levitate (§Armor Up), Lvl 47, Lonely]

• Earthquake. • Steel Wing

•Fly. • Sandstorm

→ Absol ♀️ [Pressure, Lvl 50, Calm] ⭐

• Quick Attack. • Thief

• Double Team. • Ice Beam

→ Sprigatito ♀️ [Protean, Lvl 15, Jolly]

• Magical Leaf. • Shadow Claw

• Bite. • Swift

He's the Former Lost Champion of Lachian "Khean the Chaos Bringer" the Champion that won The championship at the age of 9 without ever Losing a single fight and disappeared 17 years ago without a trace...

[Hidden] Main Pokemon Team

→ Garchomp ♂️ [Rough Skin (§Mega Evolve), lvl 90, Adamant]

• Dragon Claw. • Surf

• Earthquake. • Flamethrower

→ Luxray ♂️ [Intimidate, Lvl 100, Brave] ⭐

• Discharge. • Ice Fang

• Crunch. • Play Rough

→ Suicune [Pronounce:♀️ But genderless] [Inner Focus< Lvl 90, Calm]

• Extrasensory. • Iron Tail

• Blizzard. • Dive

→ Eevee ♂️ [Anticipation, Lvl 92, Timid]⭐

• Shadow Ball. • Copy Cat

• Dig. • Iron Tail

→ Yveltal [Pronounce:♂️ But Genderless] [Dark Aura (§Armor Up), Lvl 100, Modest]

• Oblivious Wing. • Dragon Claw

• Zen Headbutt. • Heat Wave

→ Iron Valiant [It/its] [Quark Drive, Lvl 95, Naughty]⭐

• Night Slash. • Aura Sphere

• MoonBlast. • Leaf Blade

[northerncopse]

As of today, STEM science has been officially disbanded. The UN committee "On The Matters of All Relating To The Exact Scientific" has declared that humanity no longer requires the services of STEM sciences. It will take the world a few years to de-fund STEM research, university faculties, laboratories, and such. The Hadron Collider, as an example made by the jury of the UN committee, "has not been in use for 37 years now, do we really need it?" It has now become home to tea parties, a promenade, and philosophical departments.

The next few years will be a "clean-up operation" with small independent research groups double and triple checking all of the answers to the scientific questions. If something weird comes to light, the research groups will immediately perform an emergency correction operation (ECO) to solve for the incorrect answer. If they do not solve it during the next year, the UN will have to officially reinstate STEM sciences for the duration of further research. However, officials say that it is quite unlikely that "anything weird" will come up.

The first to go are the chemical departments, according to the UN's ruling. Professors will be recycled into straws and one-time-use cups, while students will be transferred to another field. The two most popular options of major-switching are archeology and philosophy departments.

For those unfamiliar with the current philosophical situation, the philosophical departments have been keeping to themselves ever since an anonymous individual proclaimed loudly outside one of their faculty: "I think you are a bunch of losers." The philosophical departments then proceeded to debate their status as "Losers," first by defining, and arguing on what it means and implies to be a "loser" and whether such state can be achieved.

In their 889-page response to such a baseless claim, the Coalition of Philosophical Departments (CoP) said, "It is… untrue… that… philosophy… can be considered… a 'loser'… study." A few hours after the publication of the 889-page response, an Anti-Coalition of Philosophical Departments (Anti-CoP) provided a counter-argument, saying that philosophy can, in fact, be considered to consist of "a bunch of fucking wusses." The full 1,578-page response can be accessed on the anticop.org website. The debate has been going for 37 years now with a total of 17,896,351,653 words being written as of now.

The archeological departments, on the other hand, have been quite self-sufficient, with the previous generations of archeologists entombing themselves in crypts, leaving anachronistic artefacts, and defending their graves with a series of puzzles and booby-traps. The current generation of archeologists continue to research the remnants of their professors to then pass on the legacy after dying.

While many find the decision to be quite controversial, researches and scholars all over the world voice out their agreement. David Jones, a professor of particle physics specialising in teaching the Theory of Absolutely-Fucking Everything, was overjoyed when he heard the news.

"We are finally free," he said in an interview with NCNC. "I have been teaching the same thing for 64 years and the university was preparing me for another de-ageficiation cycle to continue my tenure, but then the news hit and boy, I can't wait to finally throw myself into the Canadian black hole and let my soul be shredded into quarks."

A microbiology student, who preferred to remain anonymous, also commented on the dissolution of science, saying that they "couldn't see any prospective future" for themselves and were "considering on becoming a sex worker instead."

Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and many other top universities across the world decided to celebrate the "completion of science" by burning down their sprawling STEM faculties (some of which take up the size of New York City and include their own, personalised particle accelerators). Oxford released a statement that they will use the money from the now obsolete departments to "buy a bunch of dynamite and throw it into the Canadian black hole just to see what will happen." When asked about the future of humanities, Oxford's president was confused and asked "what is that?"

[littlewalken]

Deep Space 9 Clue

Accepting the challenge of casting a DS9 Clue https://www.tumblr.com/kelasparmak/658269403053490176/ds9-episode-where-senior-staff-is-supposed-to-be?source=share which would combine Our Man Bashir and Move Along Home.

Chief O'Brien and Rom do all they can to try and get everyone else out but the only real way is to finish the program by playing as the characters and doing the different Clue endings. Rom will realize this and go in to the program in the hopes of telling the others but meets his characters' end. All it does is let him out of the program (no one really dies) but he can't contact anyone inside so they can't cheat the game.

Casting choices were made with the chaos of seeing these people play these parts in mind.

Wadsworth- Odo

Mrs Peacock- Quark (the scream)

Mrs White- Kira

Professor Plum- Dr Bashir

Mr Green- Garak (I told you I didn't do it!)

Colonel Mustard- Sisko

Yvette- Leeta

Mr Boddy- Worf or Nog or NPC

Cop- Nog or NPC

Singing Telegram- Rom (I will hear arguments it should be Worf)

Motorist- NPC

Cook- NPC

Chief of Police- O'Brien or Jake (I'm not comfortable with Jake being killed)

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Entrelaçamento Quântico. Palavras, pensamentos e ações podem mudar o mundo para melhor, ou para pior… Seja a mudança que o mundo precisa.

O fenômeno do entrelaçamento, um dos mais conhecidos e explorados dentre os bizarros comportamentos explicados pela física quântica, acaba de mostrar-se mais amplo e mais significativo do que os próprios físicos acreditavam.

O termo entrelaçamento quântico - ou emaranhamento - descreve um elo invisível que conecta duas partículas: Não importa o quão distantes elas estejam no espaço, uma afetará imediatamente a outra. Isso significa que, se você medir o estado de uma delas, saberá imediatamente o estado da outra, mesmo que ela tenha dado um jeito de viajar para o outro lado da galáxia.

"O emaranhamento é uma das características definidoras que torna a mecânica quântica tão diferente do tipo de física que normalmente acontece ao nosso redor," comentou o professor Daniel Brandenburg, da Universidade do Estado de Ohio, nos EUA.

Tão estranho quanto pareça, o fenômeno está base de coisas hoje já triviais, da computação quântica às tecnologias fotônicas.

Mesmo com tamanha importância e significado, o entrelaçamento quântico até hoje só havia sido observado entre partículas idênticas - por exemplo, entre dois fótons ou entre dois nêutrons.

Agora, uma equipe internacional de físicos, conhecida como Colaboração Star, que reúne 584 cientistas de 54 instituições em 12 países diferentes, inclusive do Brasil, conseguiu pela primeira vez demonstrar que o entrelaçamento quântico é muito mais geral, podendo ocorrer entre partículas de famílias diferentes.

Se o entrelaçamento entre partículas idênticas já havia se tornado tão importante, é difícil prever o alcance desta descoberta.

Entrelaçamento entre partículas diferentes

A equipe usou o Colisor Relativístico de Íons Pesados (RHIC, na sigla em inglês), localizado nos Estados Unidos, para descobrir uma forma de entrelaçamento quântico que mostra que partículas de todos os tipos diferentes são capazes de interagir umas com as outras, levando à interferência em uma variedade de padrões diferentes.

"Conseguimos que diferentes tipos de partículas interferissem pela primeira vez, embora antes as pessoas pensassem que isso não era possível na mecânica quântica," disse Brandenburg.

O método se baseia em observar partículas de luz, ou fótons, que envolvem íons de ouro conforme eles se movem em torno do colisor. Por meio de uma série de flutuações quânticas, os fótons interagem com os glúons, partículas semelhantes a uma "cola", que atuam como uma força de ligação para manter unidos os quarks, as partículas dentro dos prótons e nêutrons que formam os núcleos dos átomos.

Essas interações produzem uma partícula intermediária que decai rapidamente em dois píons (p) com cargas diferentes. Ao medir a velocidade e os ângulos em que essas partículas p+ e p- atingem o detector, os físicos podem recolher informações cruciais sobre o fóton original, demonstrando um entrelaçamento nunca antes visto, documentado experimentalmente entre partículas totalmente diferentes.

"Nós medimos duas partículas de saída e claramente suas cargas são diferentes - são partículas diferentes - mas vemos padrões de interferência que indicam que essas partículas estão emaranhadas, ou em sincronia umas com as outras, embora sejam partículas distinguíveis," disse Zhangbu Xu, membro da equipe.

"Esta é a primeira observação experimental de emaranhamento entre partículas diferentes," reforçou Brandenburg. Fonte

Entrelaçamento Quântico: A Chave Para a Telepatia e Conexão Humana... O entrelaçamento quântico é um dos fenômenos mais fascinantes da física quântica. Ele ocorre quando duas partículas quânticas estão interligadas de tal maneira que a medição de uma delas afeta instantaneamente o estado da outra, independentemente da distância entre elas.

Essa ligação instantânea, que viola a ideia de que a informação não pode ser transmitida mais rápido do que a velocidade da luz, tem sido objeto de estudo e especulação por décadas.

Um aspecto intrigante do entrelaçamento quântico é sua possível relação com a telepatia e a conexão entre as pessoas. A ideia é que, assim como duas partículas quânticas entrelaçadas parecem estar "conectadas" de uma forma que desafia nossa compreensão do espaço e do tempo, talvez duas mentes humanas possam estar conectadas de uma maneira similar.

Essa ideia tem sido explorada por alguns pesquisadores que estudam a possibilidade de uma comunicação não verbal entre pessoas. A teoria é que, se o entrelaçamento quântico pode permitir que duas partículas estejam instantaneamente conectadas, talvez a conexão entre as pessoas possa ser explicada pelo mesmo fenômeno. Isso pode ser visto em experiências realizadas com casais de gêmeos idênticos, que afirmam ter uma conexão especial e um entendimento mútuo incomum.

No entanto, apesar do interesse crescente nessa teoria, a ciência atualmente não tem evidências concretas para apoiar a ideia de que o entrelaçamento quântico está relacionado com a telepatia ou conexão entre as pessoas. Embora a conexão entre as pessoas possa ser real, ela pode ser explicada por outras razões, como a linguagem corporal, a empatia ou a capacidade de reconhecer pistas sutis na comunicação verbal e não verbal.

Além disso, mesmo que exista alguma conexão entre o entrelaçamento quântico e a telepatia, é importante lembrar que a mecânica quântica é um mundo muito diferente do mundo macroscópico que estamos acostumados. O entrelaçamento quântico ocorre em escalas subatômicas e é muito difícil de observar e medir. Mesmo que o entrelaçamento quântico pudesse explicar a telepatia, não teríamos a tecnologia necessária para utilizá-lo.

Em conclusão, embora o entrelaçamento quântico seja um fenômeno intrigante e a telepatia e conexão entre as pessoas sejam tópicos fascinantes, a ciência atualmente não tem evidências suficientes para apoiar a ideia de que esses conceitos estão diretamente relacionados. Mais pesquisas são necessárias para entender completamente o entrelaçamento quântico e seus possíveis efeitos no mundo macroscópico, incluindo a comunicação entre as pessoas. Até lá, devemos continuar a explorar e investigar esses fenômenos com uma mente aberta, mas também com uma dose saudável de ceticismo científico.