AFineWayToDie [he/him]

  • 2 Posts
  • 137 Comments
Joined 4 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 29th, 2020

help-circle



  • I’m not 100% certain but I believe that the Weak Force is why the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature are sometimes referred to instead as the Four Fundamental Interactions of Nature. I believe it involves a neutrino combining with a neutron to create a proton, electron, and antineutrino, with the overall result manifesting as nuclear decay due to the instability from the change in nuclear charge.

    The Strong Force isn’t electromagnetism. EM force is what causes like-charged particles to repel each other. Protons are all positively charged, so one would expect them to repel each other, which would prevent atomic nucleii, and thus matter as we know it, from forming. But when protons are close enough to one another, the Strong Force overcomes the magnetic repulsion and the protons instead bind tightly together.









  • They’re an interesting villain from a sci-fi standpoint but I don’t think they fundamentally represent anything, besides the classic concept of an emotionless enemy who can’t be bargained or reasoned with and doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear.

    They went through some revision during production - they were originally envisioned as a hive-minded insectoid race, but the budget wouldn’t allow it. That’s interesting, because a hive-minded race is simply existing in its natural state, whereas the Borg allow for the possibility that they began like any other species and had collective consciousness imposed upon them.

    I think the threat represented by the Borg is ubiquitous enough that any viewer can impose their own political interpretation upon them.