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@vishwanathjesh @Rainmaker1973 @grok Things made of stuff. About half of categories of stuff named after dis guy.

@Rainmaker1973 @grok pls explain this as I am a layman and in simple terms

He was Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist whose quiet brilliance in the 1920s forever altered our understanding of the quantum world. In 1924, Bose, then a 30-year-old professor in British India, sent a groundbreaking manuscript directly to Albert Einstein. The paper offered a novel, more elegant derivation of Planck's law for blackbody radiation by treating light quanta (photons) as indistinguishable particles—a radical departure from classical statistical methods. Impressed by its insight, Einstein personally translated the work into German and facilitated its publication in the prestigious Zeitschrift für Physik. This exchange sparked a brief but profound collaboration. Einstein extended Bose's statistical approach to material atoms, predicting a bizarre new state of matter at ultra-low temperatures: what we now call a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), where particles behave as a single quantum wave. Bose's original framework became known as Bose-Einstein statistics, and the class of particles that obey it—those with integer spin, including photons, gluons, W and Z bosons, and the Higgs boson—was later named bosons in his honor by Paul Dirac. Unlike fermions (matter particles like electrons), which obey the Pauli exclusion principle and cannot occupy the same quantum state, bosons can pile into identical states en masse. This "social" behavior underpins extraordinary macroscopic phenomena: the coherent light of lasers, the zero-resistance flow in superconductors, and the collective quantum coherence in BECs. Despite the monumental impact—his statistics describe half of all fundamental particles and enabled key advances in quantum field theory, condensed matter physics, and particle physics—Bose remained remarkably unassuming. He continued teaching at universities in Dhaka and Calcutta (now Kolkata), mentored students, pursued ideas in X-ray crystallography, unified field theory, and other areas, and never sought the spotlight. Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize (notably for Bose-Einstein statistics and his later work), he was never awarded it, and his name rarely appears in popular accounts of 20th-century physics. There's a poignant humility in his story: a man whose legacy literally names one of the two fundamental families of particles in the universe, yet whose personal fame never matched the scale of his contribution. Bose reminds us that true influence often arrives without fanfare. Some breakthroughs echo through textbooks and technologies, while their creators work in the background, content to let the universe carry their ideas forward—even if history's spotlight rarely finds them.

@PeterDClack CO2 has been much higher than we can achieve. Climate hystericals LOVE to use the last 5K years to paint a very incomplete and ultimately inaccurate picture of the atmosphere. Trees buried more carbon than we could ever retrieve from the Earth, and trees are relative newcomers.

Today, NASA satellites confirm Earth is greening dramatically. CO₂ fertilisation has added biomass equivalent to two continents of new forest in recent decades, boosting crop yields and ecosystems alike. Oceans, holding around 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere, continue their ancient dance of absorption, circulation and outgassing under Henry’s Law. The natural world keeps working its wonders. The real question isn’t whether CO₂ is 'pollution', but how we pursue genuine abundance and resilience while staying humble before these vast systems.

@Rainmaker1973 So, jobs building cars traded for jobs building, repairing, and automating robots and an assembly line. Sounds like a good move for everyone.

General Motors has laid off approximately 1,000 workers at its Factory Zero electric vehicle plant in Detroit while introducing 50 new collaborative robots, or “cobots,” to the assembly line. These robots are being used to perform repetitive and physically demanding tasks such as attaching body panels on vehicles like the GMC Hummer EV and Chevrolet Silverado EV. GM states the automation is intended to improve worker safety and ergonomics. The move has sparked strong backlash from employees and the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 22, who view it as a sign that robots are replacing human jobs, especially after previous production slowdowns and layoffs tied to weaker EV demand. This development reflects a broader industry trend: automakers are increasingly turning to robotics and AI to reduce costs and increase efficiency in a highly competitive market. While robots can handle dangerous or monotonous work, the timing of their introduction following significant job cuts has heightened concerns about the long-term impact of automation on manufacturing employment.

@GunnarStine @AstronomyVibes It's to make up the discrepancy between the amounts of matter and antimatter, a negative time universe could easily have a greater proportion of antimatter and thus balance things out. It's really the source of this weird idea in the first place.

@AstronomyVibes Why do we need another universe when the oppressed half of ours, antimatter, already has that property?

🚨 Physicists say there’s a mirror universe where time runs in reverse.

@RickyWoods39779 @AstronomyVibes

@AstronomyVibes I have visited all the universes and they're many of them made by One Heavenly Being. I have also met and talked with that Heavenly Being.

What if the universe isn’t random, but carefully drawn by an invisible architect?

@Wood2art @AstronomyVibes Reminds me of the sentient puddle observing how the hole was made perfectly for itself. Random chance could never achieve such a feat.

@AstronomyVibes Obviously, a universe with finely tuned laws that govern it is not random.

@AstronomyVibes They did a shit job because the difference between them and nothing is completely unobservable at any level from the quantum foam to the Sloan Great Wall.

@PhysInHistory He wrote about religion more than anything else. Probably more of that. He was amazing at science, but he liked his occult and religious nonsense far more than most people realize.

If Sir Isaac Newton had access to today's technology, in which area do you think he would be making discoveries? ✍️

@TheCivic @elonmusk Hell no. SA city government wants to act like the West Coast it can get treated as the West Coast.

Should @elonmusk invest in San Antonio?

Houston got a battery plant. Dallas is getting a tunnel. Corpus Christi got lithium refining. McGregor got rocket engines. Austin got the Gigafactory. San Antonio got nothing. Texas's biggest builder is investing everywhere but here.

@archeohistories Nature hobos. A pitiable existence. Even before the settlers came, it was a life of suffering, ignorance, parasites, and disease. As it has always been for hunter-gatherers. Just unlucky to be born outside of civilization. Almost made it, but not quite. Terrible.

In 1871, photographer William Henry Jackson captured a powerful image of a Bannock Tribe family group in the Idaho Territory. The Bannock people, originally from the Great Basin region, were known for their nomadic lifestyle, hunting, and fishing, relying heavily on the natural resources of the land. This photograph offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of the Bannock people, who, like many Native American tribes, were facing significant changes due to increasing contact with settlers and the pressures of westward expansion. The family in the photograph exemplifies the close-knit nature of the Bannock community, where survival and well-being were often dependent on cooperation and the sharing of resources. The attire worn by the individuals, which would have included garments made from animal hides and adorned with beadwork, reflects the rich cultural traditions of the tribe. These elements not only served practical purposes but also held symbolic significance, telling stories of heritage, identity, and spiritual connection to the land. William Henry Jackson’s photograph is a poignant reminder of the indigenous cultures that inhabited the American West long before the arrival of settlers. It highlights both the resilience and beauty of the Bannock people, whose way of life was in the process of being profoundly disrupted. Today, such images are invaluable, preserving the legacy of the Bannock Tribe and other Native American communities, ensuring that their stories are remembered and honored. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories

@PhysInHistory It is both. It is a method of finding truth via nature, but it is also the most rigorously verified collection of facts that human beings have access to. The Method is more important, it is the crown jewel of civilization, but come on now.

The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. - Freeman Dyson