David R. Smith

Change of plans. My new novel coming out is called Locker 200. Arriving next month. It'll give you the shivers.

@JohnnyColl2bbq @NobelPrize Nowadays they're scrolling on Tik Tok

@NobelPrize As a science teacher, I never gave homework. It was pointless and I wanted my students to enjoy the rest of their day doing stuff they liked, even better, spend time with family or friends.

"My mother told my teacher 'Please give my son homework at least occasionally.' My teacher answered, 'Your son has never done his homework despite the fact that I give him homework every day!'" - Toshihide Maskawa, 2008 physics laureate. Read the story: bit.ly/37sMegU

@Jettyhound777 @Sabinapatti @NobelPrize Exactly.

@Sabinapatti @NobelPrize Negative reinforcement is the removal of something (usually unpleasant) in order to make more likely that a particular behavior will be repeated. Example: Alarm clock goes off (unpleasant), you then shut it off (removal of unpleasant stimulus). Repeated behavior is getting up.

@Sabinapatti @NobelPrize Please. Teacher here. Kids can handle a little extra work at home. Don't worry: it won't cut too deeply into their hours of mindless Tik Tok scrolling.

@NobelPrize 🤣I do not believe children should ever be given homework/ the reinforcement or assignment should be dedicated to 45 min at the end of the day/ homework is a chore and is negative reinforcement —their brains need to be refreshed for the next day

@pseudomatter @coreforjustice @konstructivizm Socialist, Communist same thing. That's why the libs love Russia.

@DRSmithauthor @coreforjustice @konstructivizm It is.. btw, Russia isnt communist

A mysterious object resembling a giant bird with outstretched wings has once again been spotted in images of the Sun, according to a report from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences on February 3, 2026.The image was captured on February 2, 2026, using the LASCO coronagraph aboard the SOHO spacecraft. It shows a striking plasma structure of enormous scale — its apparent "wingspan" vastly exceeds the diameter of Earth multiple times over.A similar phenomenon was previously recorded in May 2025, when an unusual feature resembling a bird (or even a spacecraft with a fiery trail) appeared in LASCO imagery and sparked widespread discussion. Scientists noted at the time that such sharply defined and expressive plasma formations in the solar corona are extremely rare."There is still an opinion that this could be a galactic particle," the laboratory's official statement remarked, leaving room for intrigue and lighthearted speculation in scientific circles.In reality, these shapes are typically complex manifestations of solar activity: prominences, coronal mass ejections, or intricate magnetic field configurations that briefly align into such dramatic silhouettes. Optical artifacts or cosmic ray traces are also possible, though the symmetry and clarity here make it particularly eye-catching.Earlier, leading IKI RAS researcher Nathan Eismont explained how powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections can affect human health on Earth — through geomagnetic storms, radio disruptions, and potential biological impacts.For now, the "Sun bird of 2026" remains a captivating cosmic enigma — and a vivid reminder of just how dynamic and unpredictable our star continues to be, even under constant high-tech surveillance.

@pseudomatter @coreforjustice @konstructivizm I know some people who think communism is satanic. MAGA, mostly.

@coreforjustice @konstructivizm I guess if Jesus does come soon, Russia would be a great place considering the rest of the world is openly satanic

@coreforjustice @konstructivizm Blurry images of an airplane. Good catch. Real UAPs don't have runway lights on them. Nor do they use heat-producing combustion to create thrust.

@konstructivizm Russian academy of Sciences mysterious objects 2025.

@AlexFinn At any point, the plug can be pulled, right?

Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it It's my Clawdbot Henry. Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me He now won't stop calling me I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now. I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?

@iloveuelon_01 @forallcurious Really? You don't like physics? Some people do get triggered by physics, and math in general, because of how hard it is. Don't worry, though, I'm sure you're not alone!

@forallcurious I don't trust CERN or any of the countries that are behind it.

BREAKING🚨: CERN experiments confirm early universe behaved like a near-perfect fluid New results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider show energetic quarks creating wake-like ripples in quark-gluon plasma, confirming that the early universe behaved as a nearly frictionless, perfect fluid.

@AJabroni95 @forallcurious Like a phase changing people to ghosts: death

@forallcurious Mmhh. Almost like the liquid "phasechanged" into reality instead of some big bang that broke something. It is all just math in the end. Thermodynamics suggests nothing created nor destroyed. Sooo a phase changing liquid to solid makes more sense.

@ChrisPo27029087 @NBA Do you need a hug?

@NBA IT APPEARS YOU HAVE A TRAITOR TO DEMOCRACY AS AN OWNER. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Brothers Dylan Harper and Ron Harper Jr. will go head-to-head in the opening game of the Castrol Rising Stars on Friday Feb. 13, with rosters and matchups finalized yesterday for the showcase of premier young talent at NBA All-Star 2026 in Los Angeles. Dylan has made an instant impact as a rookie with the San Antonio Spurs, while Ron Jr. is one of the NBA G League’s top scorers as a Two-Way Player with the Boston Celtics. The Harpers are the sons of five-time NBA champion Ron Harper, who played for both the LA Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers during his 15-year career.

@LocalBirdKing @CarrieBurr84791 @PhysInHistory @grok I'll answer for Grok: yes, she's stupid

@CarrieBurr84791 @PhysInHistory @grok is this true? Is she stupid?

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. -- Carl Sagan

@CarrieBurr84791 @PhysInHistory Doubly so for morons like Rogan who just repeat the innanity.

@PhysInHistory Nothing disturbs me more than to listen to some damn scientists spill their own theory onto the world without any proof to back it 🆙

@maverick512000 @michelle72767 @DaWave2022 @archeohistories So, what'll it be? Compassion for both sides of the aisle?

@DRSmithauthor @michelle72767 @DaWave2022 @archeohistories Having young girls be forced to change with a me tally I'll man in the locker with them and then having their hard work and opportunities taken away by that same man while the people that were suppose to protect and support them celebrate it. Yeah that does really eat at me.

For centuries, when harvests failed and hunger set in, societies looked for someone to blame—and too often, they chose women. Not in metaphor, but in flesh. In a world without climate science, where droughts or crop disease couldn’t be explained, fear demanded a scapegoat. And women—especially those who bled, aged, gave birth, or simply lived outside the bounds of obedience—were cast as the cause. In early modern Europe, during times of environmental collapse like the Little Ice Age, this fear sharpened. Crops withered, winters dragged on, and instead of facing nature’s chaos, communities turned inward. Widows, midwives, healers, or women who simply spoke too much were accused of tampering with the natural world. A failed harvest wasn’t random—it was a sign of moral failure. And hunger demanded someone to punish. Witch trials didn’t erupt in times of abundance—they followed famine, plague, and crisis. Women were blamed for ruining crops, killing livestock, even causing bad weather. Their “crimes” were often just being too visible, too sexual, too old, too independent. In some courts, a dream about a woman’s spirit damaging crops was enough to convict her. Her actual presence wasn’t even required. Menstruation became a powerful symbol of this fear. Across cultures, menstrual blood was seen as poison—thought to ruin seeds, spoil wine, blight gardens. Farming manuals warned women not to touch plants during their cycle. Religious texts framed them as impure. Over time, this wasn’t just superstition—it became a system of control. The cruelest irony? Women were blamed for what they couldn’t control, then pushed out of the very work that sustained their communities. If they helped in the fields, they were punished. If they didn’t, they were called lazy. The logic trapped them either way. At its core, this wasn’t about crops—it was about power. Regulating women’s bodies became a way to manage fear. And even though the witch trials ended, the logic behind them didn’t vanish. We still see it today, when women are blamed for decline, disorder, or change. #archaeohistories

@ArthurLillyblad @konstructivizm Clearly Feynman was wrong.

@konstructivizm Richard Feynman would disagree with this. The quantum nature of electrons do not allow an image of a superposition state, which this simulates. Everything I know about electrons (a lot) calls bs. Measurement always collapses a wave function. This image shows superposition.

Humanity has, for the first time, captured a direct visual glimpse of an electron's orbital within a hydrogen atom—literally peering inside the simplest building block of the universe.This feels almost dreamlike, even impossible. For over a century, electrons existed as mathematical ghosts: probability waves, abstract clouds, never something you could actually see. They were ideas, equations, patterns of likelihood—not pictures. Now, that boundary between theory and tangible reality has been crossed in a way that feels deeply personal, as though the subatomic world has finally looked back at us.For decades physicists spoke of electron behavior, not electron paths. Textbooks offered elegant probability distributions, but no portrait. This image shatters that emotional distance. It sculpts the invisible into form, turning the most fundamental unit of matter from a distant concept into something intimate, almost recognizable—like catching sight of the scaffolding beneath everyday existence.Hydrogen may be the universe's simplest atom—one proton, one electron—yet its significance is cosmic. It powers the fusion furnaces of stars, forms the backbone of water, and underpins all chemistry. Gazing into its heart is akin to opening the very first page of reality's book. It whispers a profound truth: complexity springs from profound simplicity, and even the smallest structures pulse with extraordinary meaning.Don't expect the tidy, planetary orbit of old Bohr models. What this image reveals is a delicate, ethereal cloud—a probability haze sculpted by quantum rules that defy classical intuition. The surprise is the revelation itself. Nature rarely conforms to our intuitive sketches; it favors subtle elegance, layered mystery, and quiet defiance of expectation.Discoveries like this don't tie up loose ends—they unravel new ones. They stretch curiosity rather than satisfy it. Seeing an electron's orbital laid bare doesn't conclude the story; it multiplies the questions, deepens the enigma. True wonder lives not in neat final answers, but in these fleeting, humbling glimpses that urge us to lean in closer—with awe, patience, and an open-hearted readiness to be astonished again.

@maverick512000 @michelle72767 @DaWave2022 @archeohistories I don't suppose it would help you to know that the instances you are describing are very few and very far between. And that the horrors of ICE tearing young children from their mother's arms are far, far more prevalent. I hope your compassion is wide enough to embrace both.

@maverick512000 @michelle72767 @DaWave2022 @archeohistories That really eats at you doesn't it? Faux news has done a wonder on your brain.

@DRSmithauthor @michelle72767 @DaWave2022 @archeohistories And I bet you think that men in women's sports is completely fair and that there is no difference between a biological woman and a man that decided they want to be woman.

@maverick512000 @michelle72767 @DaWave2022 @archeohistories You watch too many Westerns. The bad ones.

@michelle72767 @DaWave2022 @archeohistories Look while I don't disagree that women should have those, the reality is that without men's help you wouldn't have them. The main 2 things that protect a woman from a man out to do her harm is a weapon and another man. Women have rights because men agreed they should have rights.

@SemperWanderer @michaelkayser1 @konstructivizm Why does mass moving though space time create persistence, though? Why doesn't the mass that is me fall apart when I sleep?

@michaelkayser1 @konstructivizm Feilds generate particals. Matter is just bonded partials. The bond creates mass, mass creates gravity in the field, matter interactes with other matter creating distance between two points giving you space and time. Mass moving through space/time creates persistence.

Quantum field theory shows that empty space is not truly empty. Instead, the universe is filled everywhere with fundamental quantum fields, each corresponding to a type of particle. What we call a particle, such as an electron or photon, is actually a localized excitation—a tiny ripple—within its underlying field. The electron field exists everywhere, and an electron appears when that field is disturbed in a specific way. This framework explains why particles of the same type are perfectly identical and why interactions occur through field-mediated processes rather than direct contact. Forces arise from fields exchanging energy and momentum, and even the vacuum exhibits measurable effects, such as quantum fluctuations and virtual particles. Quantum field theory unifies special relativity with quantum mechanics and underpins the Standard Model of particle physics. Understanding particles as field excitations reframes matter itself as dynamic structure rather than solid substance, revealing that the universe’s most basic reality is a continuous, interacting network of invisible quantum fields. Source Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics, Quantum Field Theory Standard Model Literature

@archeohistories With a bit of hard work, he has the makings of an epic fantasy series. He should get to writing!

The world’s longest-running Dungeons & Dragons campaign, led by Robert A. Wardhaugh, has been ongoing since 1982... In 1982, Canadian historian Robert A. Wardhaugh sat down to begin a Dungeons & Dragons campaign with friends. What started as a hobby soon became a lifelong commitment. Over four decades later, that same campaign is still running, making it the longest continuous D&D game in the world. Wardhaugh has built an expansive fantasy universe that stretches far beyond the typical tabletop experience. His basement is now filled with massive hand-built landscapes, intricate miniatures, and elaborate storylines that his players navigate. The game has evolved into a living history, with characters and families spanning generations, and events that ripple across decades of storytelling. Unlike a traditional campaign that might last weeks or months, Wardhaugh’s game has no end in sight. Players come and go, but the world continues, shaped by decisions made decades ago as well as those made today. For Wardhaugh, it’s more than just a pastime—it’s an art form, combining history, creativity, and friendship into a shared experience that has lasted longer than many real-world nations. His campaign shows the enduring power of imagination, and how storytelling, when nurtured, can create a legacy as rich as any written epic. © History Pictures #archaeohistories

@kikibum35 @archeohistories Stupid

“The Crawlers”, 1877. ‘The Crawlers’ were the lowest of the British poor. This elderly widow is sitting outside a tailor’s shop, holding a baby while its mother works. She was given a cup of tea and a slice of bread daily in return. The photograph titled “The Crawlers” was taken in 1877 and captures one of the harshest realities of Victorian poverty in London. The term “crawlers” referred to some of the most destitute people in society — often the elderly, widowed, or disabled, who were too frail to work and forced to rely on scraps of charity to survive. They were called “crawlers” because many were so weakened by hunger, disease, or age that they could only move slowly, often crawling or dragging themselves along the streets. In this haunting image, an elderly widow sits outside a tailor’s shop, cradling an infant. The baby’s mother, likely a working-class woman struggling to make ends meet, left her child in the widow’s care while she labored inside. The widow’s payment for this exhausting responsibility was meager: a cup of tea and a slice of bread a day. Such arrangements were common, as survival for the poorest relied on fragile networks of mutual aid and the charity of others. This photograph is more than a snapshot, it is a window into the crushing inequalities of Victorian society. While industrial Britain was generating immense wealth, many of its citizens were trapped in cycles of poverty, living day to day on the edge of survival. Social reformers later used photographs like this as evidence to push for changes in housing, sanitation, and welfare laws, laying the groundwork for Britain’s eventual social safety nets. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories