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Hellfire103@lemmy.ca to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

physics ≠ magic

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physics ≠ magic

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Hellfire103@lemmy.ca to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Not pictured lightning making the rocks think

    • Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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      NO THEY’RE NOT GOLEMS SHUT UP

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        Lifeless? Soulless? Speak and move only when infused with lifeblood or arcane essence?

        Sure quacks like a golem

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          Golems don’t quack silly mortal

          • OsaErisXero@kbin.run
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            https://youtu.be/ed5uKLlQKFo

            No gods or kings, only wizards

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    Is the last pic the criticality blue glow from reactors?

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      Ah, it’s a photo of a mercury arc rectifier (which is more electrical engineering, maybe?), not, Cherenkov radiation.

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        “Mercury” and “arc” on the same sentence do really, really not make one imagine something that perfectly fine to use or be around in operation.

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      Nah it’s a glass something that has to do with electricity but I forgot what

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      Just plain old blue electrical arcs.

      On the other hand, Cherenkov radiatiation is only indirectly related to criticality. It comes from any particle moving through a medium, generally water, faster than light travels through that medium. A luminous sonic boom of sorts! It’s associated with criticality because those are the contexts where it happens often enough to actually be visible.

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    That’s exactly what a magician physicist would say.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    the blue what the fuck looks cool

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      Mercury-based diodes both look way cooler and are way less spooky than garden variety semicondictor diodes.

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    Anything smartphones do seems more appropriate. That stuff is hardly mentioned here.

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      I understand smartphones. They are relatively simple devices.

      Apart from GPS and 5G communications which are pure black magic.

      And magnets: magic

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        Simple…? Just understanding how transistors can be combined to generate a picture on a screen is crazy complex.

        Magnetic fields are a big part of smartphones in various, different uses. GPS is low tech compared to how the CPU is made.

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    Struggling for content, huh? Only reason to include 2 full bridge rectifiers.
    I mean, they are cool. And important. Surely there are other scary things to include, tho

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      Only reason to include 2 full bridge rectifiers

      they look like runes.

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        Is this curiousmarc?
        I’m addicted to his videos!

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      https://youtu.be/9dtPEk73X9U?si=IcxhlkOT5wN20e5L

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        Love an electroboom!

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