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Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️
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What would Himmel the hero do?
Who can say? เข้าร่วม Eylül 2011
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@PeterMOrem @DeivonDrago @martinmbauer And investigative reporters who've looked into it have been unable to find any evidence that he actually has any degree in physics from any university.
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@PeterMOrem @DeivonDrago @martinmbauer Having taught undergrads at good schools, yes, it does not mean much. Many, if not most, graduate knowing very little.
However, from everything I've seen, he does not meet even those low standards, and I fully believe he is outright lying about having a degree.
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Experiments don't "slow discovery", they make discoveries
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage
🚨 Elon Musk says physics has stagnated and AI could overtake scientific research. He says progress has relied on expensive hardware like colliders and telescopes, that slows discovery.
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@j3lqingt0n @2025Blog I think the more interesting question is why the body's set-point weight gets so high and why that value is so sticky.
Plus some fraction of people are overweight due to genuine illness, regardless of CICO. Not nearly enough to cause the trend, but still clinically relevant.
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@j3lqingt0n @2025Blog This might be true, but isn't relevant. The margins of error on calorie measurements are fairly high (for good reasons) and the body can do quite a bit of adjusting of not only energy expenditure but its efficiency as well.
Those margins are more than enough to cause weight gain.
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People forget that these kids all ate diets that were loaded with processed foods and seed oils and grew up in homes saturated in cigarette smoke because that's just how the middle class in the 1960s did it. It's literally just calories in/calories out and not being sedentary.
Elwë Singollo ❄️🧝🏻♀️@Strangeland_Elf
“Our grandparents were eating real food!” Not sure how old your grandparents are but I’m pretty sure a large portion of our grandparents were cooking everything in crisco and margarine.
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@moultano My favorite part about kids, as an uncle (aside from having zero actual responsibilities), is being able to consistently blow their minds with trivial information.
My favorite developmental stage is when they first understand what jokes are. Everything you say is 10/10 hilarious.
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I remember as a little kid learning to read silently for the first time. I was reading a book out loud, and someone was annoyed at me, so they told me "You know you can read silently right?" I hadn't known that actually.
Guy BOOK IS LIVE! || CHECK BIO@nosilverv
Reminder that EVERYTHING is an achievement: St. Augustine was shocked to find St. Ambrose reading *silently* (reading was then social and aloud) and private silent reading only really took off 700 years after in the 12 century.
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I genuinely thought they meant he shit himself what the fuck is wrong with me
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@ZPEdisclosure Yes, but you're still an idiot who doesn't understand why or how that works.
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The Casimir effect in 30 seconds:
Put two uncharged metal plates very close together in a vacuum. They attract each other.
Why? Because the quantum vacuum has energy, and narrowing the gap between the plates reduces the modes of vacuum fluctuation between them. More energy outside than inside. Pressure differential. Plates move.
This is measured. Verified. Textbook physics.
The vacuum is not empty. Your physics teacher lied.
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@SashaGusevPosts So many are so hesitant to defend what's worth defending or to criticize what's worth criticizing. That's more of an embarrassment than any crappy researcher's output could ever be.
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@SashaGusevPosts Academia would be *incalculably* better off if there were far more statements of support for like this, and if each of them started their first sentence with such unambiguous phrases as "is a deeply unoriginal thinker and sloppy researcher; his recruitment is an embarrassment."
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This is a good letter. Cofnas shouldn't be fired (and it appears he will not be). Cofnas is a deeply unoriginal thinker and a sloppy researcher; his recruitment is an embarrassment. But once hired, he has a right to academic freedom of expression.
Committee for Academic Freedom@ComAcFreedom
Dr @nathancofnas’s appointment at Ghent University has prompted a campaign by members of the institution calling on the university to reverse course, citing his published work on race, heredity and intelligence. In response, CAF Advisory Board member Professor Abhishek Saha helped organised a counter-petition in support of Cofnas’s right to #academicfreedom of expression. CAF Director Dr Edward Skidelsky is among the signatories, alongside a number of senior academics from leading universities. This is not about endorsing Cofnas’s views, but about defending the principle that disagreements of this kind should be addressed through open inquiry, criticism, and civil debate. Of course, academics must be free to strongly contest ideas they regard as deeply objectionable. But that does not extend to a veto over appointments. Universities cannot function if controversial or provocative lines of research are treated as grounds for exclusion rather than argument. You can read the statement and sign the counter-petition here: drive.google.com/file/d/1RRsGma… @ObhishekSaha @ProfDHayes @epkaufm @Furedibyte @HJoyceGender @drianpace @aytchellesse @JoPhoenix1 @sapinker
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@ishtwts Programmers, laughing at this and then going back to work where every fucking type they use is either a string or a struct filled with strings, because they don't understand how to encode any data any other way.
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@chaosrealm4 @loganb I remember reading some controversy when the new bridge was being built about it being unsafe too? Something about one of the lead engineers quitting over it or something? I don't remember the details though.
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@loganb You're right on the bigger point, but the old 520 bridge wasn't fine, it was seismically unsafe - that was the main driver for the replacement iirc
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I remember when WA replaced the 520 bridge. The old one was much smaller, had smaller shoulders, would occasionally close for boat traffic, and had a lower speed limit. It was fine.
The new one is gigantic and super expensive. We don’t need to gold plate everything.
Tren Griffin@trengriffin
The cost to replace the Interstate Bridge between Washington and Oregon increased ~ 140% from a 2022 estimate of $6 billion to a new "target" of $14.4 billion. How much of this cost is not related to actual construction and is instead fees of consultants and lawyers?
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@radioactivered That's fine, I'll just use explosive flux compression to get my high currents instead.
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This is a krytron, a high-speed trigger switch historically used in nuclear weaponry to control the timing of detonation circuits. It’s an ultra fast, gas-filled tube that works by using a small electrical trigger to ionize gas inside, which instantly allows a much larger current to flow. The ability to switch high currents almost instantly is what makes it useful in systems where extremely precise timing is critical. Some krytrons contain a small amount of radioactive material (like Nickel-63 or krypton-85) to help the gas ionize more reliably.
Krytrons were developed in the early 1950s and used primarily through the 1970s, especially during the Cold War. In nuclear weapons, they were part of firing circuits that required multiple electrical pulses to occur at almost exactly the same moment. They were also employed in scientific and industrial applications such as pulsed lasers and high-speed photography.
Legally, krytrons are heavily controlled under export regulations like the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). They are legal to own in the U.S., but exporting them internationally without proper authorization is strictly prohibited.☢️
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@karch_andreas @OMinazzoli I mean TBH theory funding would be like 100x what it was before all these cuts if we did that.
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@OMinazzoli Yeah. We should just say every year that quantum gravity will be completely solved by the end of the year and then continue this over and over again for more than a decade without delivering and everyone would think we are geniuses like Musk.
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Whereas making everything up is much quicker!
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage
🚨 Elon Musk says physics has stagnated and AI could overtake scientific research. He says progress has relied on expensive hardware like colliders and telescopes, that slows discovery.
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@septimus8 @hellosami THB I'm a little disappointed none of the captions were "LITERALLY UNSINKABLE."
OP, have your kid make up a series of Titanic posters touting the unsinkability of the Titanic.
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@hellosami White Star Line did design some amazing posters in the 1910s, even if their ships are now more notorious. Titanic kid may be interested in these:
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@atlanticesque Yeah, if I had to look at balls all day...
Hmm, maybe I should become a small business owner...
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@billybinion @michelletandler ITT: "I haven't changed or matured in any way since I was 15, why would she?"
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@michelletandler She was 15 years old. I didn't like it when people dug up offensive, years-old tweets to ruin people on the right, and I don't think it's any better now.
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It's pretty rare that I find a tweet so offensive that I don't even want to repost it.
But, here we are.
This is Zohran Mamdani's wife, writing about Gay people.
The mask is off.
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@zenahitz Newton's papers do not contain the modern foundations of Newtonian mechanics in any meaningful way. It took generations of work to figure out what those foundations really were and what the right way to think about it really was.
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That is totally believable and it would still be true that Newton was more worth reading than a textbook. For lay readers, foundations are more important than completeness.
Tim Hamilton@TSHamiltonAstro
@zenahitz We're certainly confused about certain things, but we have a better understanding of, say, Newtonian mechanics than Newton had. Our progress has meant we're confused about new things, like getting gravity and quantum mechanics to work with each other.
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@LocasaleLab That's not responsive to the post at all.
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I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. But when a university taking in billions in revenue chooses not to buffer even short-term funding delays or prioritize its resources around science, while administrators expand their offices and take in seven-figure salaries, it says everything about the model. Scientists are treated less as scholars to be supported and more as revenue generators for indirect costs, with all the financial risk pushed onto them.
Katayoun Ayasoufi@KAyasoufi
@LocasaleLab Maby have lost their labs and more continue to lose them with delays and lack of funding in hand. I, myself, have had to downsize and could also lose my lab by the end of the year if none of my in process grants happen. There are real consequences to NIH not fundings grants.
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@CasquetteGirl @Aaron_Carpenter Omg they hit some turbulence and Worf falls down the Enterprise's stairs, that would be my favorite episode.
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@Aaron_Carpenter how about a nice neutral metal pipe or perhaps a fall
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@g8ge There's basically zero value in doing things like this, aside from occasional cases where there's some insight that no one's bothered to elaborate on elsewhere.
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I've met physics profs at R1 universities who haven't read any of Einstein's papers, even in translation. His revelation E = mc^2 is in a paper of just 3 printed pages! #3cultures sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teac…
Charles W. Clark@g8ge
I had a conversation once with a most distinguished physics colleague at UMCP: why don't we get more graduate students from St. John's College? A: they're certainly bright, but they fare poorly in the PhD qualifier exam.
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