#people particle physics

[probablynanobots]

A Revelation Re: training (also advice for growing tits and hair)

We trained ourselves.

Or rather, the grown ups that trained themselves trained some other kids and those kids became grown ups and trained us.

But it turns out that the grown ups from before?

They were just other kids. And they had no one to train them.

So they trained themselves and passed it on, but didn't tell us how they knew the things they taught. We thought that they had always know, that secrets were revealed to those their age, in time.

And when they passed themselves, we forgot

The key to memory is rhyme.

Mystically scientific dietary recommendation:

Do you want luscious hair, big tits, and a fat ass?

Adventure_Ren recommends Marie Calendar's Razzleberry Pie! If you don't have money to buy pie, make a pie with just blackberries, rasperries, and a bit of cinnamon, if you like. If you don't know how to bake, get some of the spicy berries and mix them in a mug with ice cream or hot cocoa, which ever you can get. If all you have is berries, the heat them however you can. If you need berries, let me know and I can find a way to get you some.

[probablynanobots]

Yelp barbarically into the night. I shall not judge, only reflect.

please reblog this if it is okay to anonymously confess something to you.

Confess something to me

[icethinggigachad]

"Hadron" originates in particle physics, as a term it was introduced in 1962. If he were born in 1962, he wouldve been way too young to be in college with Ford in the 1970s.

Therefore: there is no way that Fiddleford's could have given him that name originally.

This opens a few possibilities:

1. Fiddleford's parents gave him that middle name retroactively for some reason. Like they read about the latest in particle physics somehow, looked at their nine or ten year old son, then decided "this is your middle name now!"

2. Fiddleford is trans, and chose it himself. Deciding to name himself after physics stuff like a giant nerd.

3. Fiddleford is not trans, but for some reason decided to give himself a nerdy middle name anyway. Just because.

[footsteps-on-the-dance-floor]

April 17, 1969: Robert R. Wilson’s Congressional Testimony on Founding Fermilab

[probablynanobots]

Corvus Corax

Course Corrects

The way is shown

Through painted flecks.

Follow the spotted, the limp, the blind,

Where those find succor, so shall thine.

The strong, the rich, they own their path,

And charge you for the way.

Follow the roads led by crows,

Live to see next day.

A common raven (Corvus corax) perches on a wall in Scotland, UK

by Iain H Leach

[himbosuplex]

I vehemently believe that Higgs 2.0 is a Depeche Mode dork and if you've ever seen them perform you know exactly what I mean

[jokerlennon]

normal people please tell me how old were you when you learned about things being both particles and waves

[probablynanobots]

I am a fish inside a brook, that no one ever leaves.

Shadows pass by, faces turned, no one ever sees.

I feel them swimming 'round,

Out there in the air.

I tried to flash them "Hi" but they do not seem to care.

Until today, a shadow looked! They looked straight at my shine!

So I declare, from this day forth: THAT shadow? They are MINE.

I had naught else to go, my friend, and so I allowed the man to wrap his arm around My shoulder and lead me forwards. The Institute, As I would come to know, held men and women From all the hidden corners of the Earth, and I Its newest occupant. Outside, the complex Looked more to me to be a castle grounds, With many paths and ornamental touches. The buildings were made of stone and wood and glass And appeared to be designed by a Modernist, Whose goal it seemed was to calm the twitching nerves With straight lines and flat textures and water, For there was water everywhere. There were ponds, And little artificial brooks and streams, Even fish of varying colors swimming about In crystal clear water. I wished to reach My hand into the ponds and scoop out a crisp Handful of it, or take off my clothes and wade In the larger pools despite the chilling winter Air. I asked, ‘Is this a monastery? Am I to live ascetically and become a monk? I could get used to this environment As easily as mice might take to cheese, These peaceful running waters amongst the trees.’

[235uranium]

all of science will alter your perspective and even unsettle you but physics has a tendency to take every reasonable assumption you make and mutilate it

[probablynanobots]

A strong tut tut is coming

They think they're at my level, 'cause they pushed me so far down.

But the kraken found and nurtured me, so guess what's coming now?

Something wicked? Not that bad...

Mom's on the way, and

HoohoOOo-wheEEE!!

She is ripping mad at Dad.

I may not be Fef Piexes,

but my Squid Mom is a beast

when it comes to serving reckonings

To those who hurt the meek.

Empire Strikes Back?

Nah, nah. Nature Strikes Back, Empires fall.

Author's note: Pretty sure I am a gold/violet mutant, but I dunno if I am ready to be quite THAT Homestuck yet.

[petewentzssilkpress]

This is so sjsjdjsksks. the average person doesn't know what a higgs boson is. more people know about elon than about particle physics and cosmology. of all the things to nitpick over why would you choose that lmao

[themslash]

i never talk about how one of my main special interests is astrophysics and particle physics because it makes me sound absolutely insane.

[savrenim]

#cool idea but like#iron has so many redox states#iron is often not stable

I am begging you chemistry side of tumblr I am talking about nuclear binding energy aka strong and weak nuclear force aka not electrostatic force not the thing that makes things chemically stable or not

iron 56 and iron 58 which consist of over 92% of the iron is in fact. the second and third most stable isotopes in the known universe in the nuclear sense (nickel 62 has them beat bc back when the first "iron is the most stable" experiments were being done scientists concentrated on mass per nucleon and nickel with less protons has less mass to divide out, but also, we're talking 8.794 MeV vs . 8.792 MeV) whether or not something is chemically stable is quite literally a different fundamental force

whether or not you* can extract nuclear energy out of something has absolute negligible correlation to the current electron shell and thus chemical properties and everything to do with the composition of the nucleus

*or more likely a sun

......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"

*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all

[justtogetthrough]

Listening to people tonight who are self-proclaimed super-intelligent, science-minded, highly-rational people try to insist that “science” is a thing that is just “true” and I cringed and corrected that “science” is a method, what makes things scientific is the method of investigation. And no one cared and just kept repeating that science is true because it creates facts, even if those facts are time and/or culture dependent. And I didn’t want to fight it because the outcome of what we were saying was all the same, they are just wrong in what they believe science to be and how they were getting from point A to point B in their deeply held (mostly right) convictions.

I’m still ruminating about it because these are some of the most… sciency people without having actual science degrees you could find in the general population. With all their time spent online reading science news and information, they’ve somehow never picked up that what makes science science is the scientific method of inquiry which is a prescribed method that leads to variable and infinite results so yes everything they said was right EXCEPT that science is inherently ever true!!!!! It’s just a fucking method that is neutral until human bias enters the process!!!!! I have a science degree and have had like 4 different science domains at significant levels as my special interests over the years! There’s more to science than Neil De Grasse Tyson!!!!!!!

[batboyblog]

Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #39

October 18-25 2024.

President Biden issued the first presidential apology on behalf of the federal government to America's Native American population for the Indian boarding school policy. For 150 years the federal government operated a system of schools which aimed to destroy Native culture through the forced assimilation of native children. At these schools students faced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and close to 1,000 died. The Biden-Harris Administration has been historic for Native and Tribal rights. From the appointment of the first ever Native American cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, to the investment of $46 billion dollars on tribal land, to 200 new co-stewardship agreements. The last 4 years have seen a historic investment in and expansion of tribal rights.

The Biden-Harris Administration proposed a new rule which would make contraceptive medication (the pill) free over the counter with most Insurance. The new rule would ban cost sharing for contraception products, including the pill, condoms, and emergency contraception. On top of over the counter medications, the new rule will also strength protections for prescribed contraception without cost sharing as well.

The EPA announced its finalized rule strengthening standards for lead paint dust in pre-1978 housing and child care facilities. There is no safe level of exposure to lead particularly for children who can suffer long term developmental consequences from lead exposure. The new standards set the lowest level of lead particle that can be identified by a lab as the standard for lead abatement. It's estimated 31 million homes built before the ban on lead paint in 1978 have lead paint and 3.8 million of those have one or more children under the age of 6. The new rule will mean 1.2 million fewer people, including over 300,000 children will not be exposed to lead particles every year. This comes after the Biden-Harris Administration announced its goal to remove and replace all lead pipes in America by the end of the decade.

The Department of Transportation announced a $50 million dollar fine against American Airlines for its treatment of disabled passengers and their wheelchairs. The fine stems from a number of incidences of humiliating and unfair treatment of passages between 2019 and 2023, as well as video documented evidence of mishandling wheelchairs and damaging them. Half the fine will go to replacing such damaged wheelchairs. The Biden administration has leveled a historic number of fines against the airlines ($225 million) for their failures. It also published a Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights, passed a new rule accessible lavatories on aircraft, and is working on a rule to require airlines to replace lost or damaged wheelchairs with equal equipment at once.

The Department of Energy announced $430 million dollars to help boost domestic clean energy manufacturing in former coal communities. This invests in projects in 15 different communities, in places like Texas, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Michigan. The plan will bring about 1,900 new jobs in communities struggling with the loss of coal. Projects include making insulation out of recycled cardboard, low carbon cement production, and industrial fiber hemp processing.

The Department of Transportation announced $4.2 billion in new infrastructure investment. The money will go to 44 projects across the country. For example the MBTA will get $400 million to replace the 92 year old Draw 1 bridge and renovate North Station.

The Department of Transportation announced nearly $200 million to replace aging natural gas pipes. Leaking gas lines represent a serious public health risk and also cost costumers. Planned replacements in Georgia and North Carolina for example will save the average costumer there over $900 on their gas bill a year. Replacing leaking lines will also remove 1,000 metric tons of methane pollution, annually.

The Department of the Interior announced $244 million to address legacy pollution in Pennsylvania coal country. This comes on top of $400 million invested earlier this year. This investment will help close dangerous mine shafts, reclaim unstable slopes, improve water quality by treating acid mine drainage, and restore water supplies damaged by mining.

Data shows that President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (passed with Vice-President Harris' tie breaking vote) has saved seniors $1 billion dollars on out-of-pocket drug costs. Seniors with certain high priced drugs saw their yearly out of pocket costs capped at $3,500 for 2024. In 2024 all seniors using Medicare Part D will see their out of pocket costs capped at $2,000 for the year. It's estimated if the $2,000 cap had been in effect this year 4.6 million seniors would have hit it by June and not have had to pay any more for medication for the rest of the year.

The Department of Education announced a new proposed rule to bring student debt relief for 8 million struggling borrowers. The Biden-Harris Administration has managed despite road blocks from Republicans in Congress, the courts and law suits from Republican states to bring student loan forgiveness to 5 million Americans so far through different programs. This latest rule would take into account many financial hardships faced by people to determine if they qualify to have their student loans forgiven. The final rule cannot be finalized before 2025 meaning its fate will be decided at the election.

The Department of Agriculture announced $1.5 billion in 92 partner-driven conservation projects. These projects aim at making farming more susceptible and environmental friendly, 16 projects are about water conservation in the West, 6 support use of innovative technologies to reduce enteric methane emissions in livestock. $100 million has been earmarked for Tribal-led projects.

[ralexsol]

I'm rly close to finishing Before the Big Bang by Laura Mersini-Houghton, so you know what that means. I need to go to Barnes & Noble to find random cosmology books that look interesting again