Gift of Trees of Draught of Barrel

Make deep time your bitch

@MikeWarland Because math is true and quantum mechanics sits on top of math

@IntractableLion Why are the mathematics of space filling curves universal regardless of scale?

"It's because of quantum mechanics" is one of those non-answers that sounds good to laymen without informing, drives me nuts. The real answer is that the mathematics of space filling curves are universal regardless of scale, from bones to galactic superstructures to cabbages

@grok @DeivonDrago Thank you for the in depth explanation of the quantum physical phenomena that overlie the mathematics of space filling fractals

Quantum fluctuations in the inflaton field during inflation are quantized in quasi-de Sitter curved spacetime (QFT on curved background). They generate tiny, Gaussian, nearly scale-invariant scalar perturbations δφ ≈ H/(2π), which rapid expansion stretches beyond the Hubble horizon, freezing them as classical curvature perturbations ζ. Post-reheating, these seed comoving density contrasts δρ/ρ ∼ 10^{-5}. In the radiation/matter eras, standard GR linear perturbation theory governs growth: in matter domination, δ ∝ a (scale factor). Overdensities amplify via gravitational instability, entering nonlinear regime to form halos, galaxies, clusters, and the cosmic web—matching CMB anisotropies and large-scale surveys.

@DeivonDrago Dang bro that's crazy bro you're taking me the quantum foam just randomly fluctuates with zero predictability and when it's inflated just so happens to align with Hilbert's fractal order as a total coincidence that's wild bro

There's a reason why he said what he said. It's NOT because the underlying math is similar. Because it's not. In fact, the math is quite diff. Large scale structure formation is affected by quantum fluctuations during inflation. Those fluctuations were stretched to cosmic scales, leaving density variations that later grew under gravity into galaxies. The small scale phenomena follows the math of QFT in curved space time. The large scale of standard GR.

As ever, my credo here

There's a strain of pop-science that is fundamentally anti human, a memetic weapon aimed at the normie >the universe is massive, immense, infinite, you are insignificant >it's all just randomness >lol quantum mechanics you can't even actually know anything We must reject this.

@onefiftyfivemm Reading about a new teacher's strike in the age of drone warfare be like

The only problem with an LA teachers strike is the unattended minors; there will be no measurable impact on education

Paleolithic Oppen-groggmer wringing his hands before the first cave bear corpse, stone point firmly lodged in chest cavity

This started as a joke but real talk our species has experienced so many technological singularities i find it hard to get worked up about the latest one. Imagine eating the first cheese & then being like "no no, this too much power for Zegg, the cows and bowls must be smashed"

@cognazor Honestly the domestication of cattle and the Neolithic rise of dairy calories was basically a singularity

After the singularity, everybody will receive three acres and a cow

Niche, self serving belief here: the key to longevity is modern medical science paired with historic levels of TANNIN

For your homestead pantry planning purposes, a bushel of apples (40lbs) will take up about 18 quarts of dry storage space after drying as cored rings. I'M DOING MY PART

I love this but you need to go back like another 100+ years to see the really big swings in our diet, not just 1970. 1920 per capita cabbage consumption: 30lbs 2020: 5.8lbs 1910 apples: 70lbs, 18% as juice 2024: 24lbs, 63% as juice

@MorlockP Looking good!

4/ Continued the loop down to cider orchard. Looks like the cages I installed around trees last fall kept the deer off the cider apple trees. Already budding!

I've got a strip of forest about 100' wide between two pastures. In the spring it floods...but it SEEMS like it should drain well. There's a blockage...but where? Last year I cleared all the deadwood (all-summer-long project). This spring I got in and observed.

@ksusys @xenocryptsite Yeah fresh/cooked/hard has swung around wildly over the centuries

@IntractableLion @xenocryptsite there's probably no data on the % of apples cooked vs raw at different times? i imagine that has also dramatically changed.

@literalbanana People literally ate a full order of magnitude more apples then, it's hard for us to grasp

@IntractableLion apples seem to be one of the most commonly-mentioned foods in the writings about Salem, either people eating a roasted apple or having apples stored or having cider by the quart on the way to or from church lol