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Electrons are easy (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 194 points 4 months ago (5 children)

"Well... You see... When its a particle it spins. When its a wave its still doing that. How does a waveform spin you ask? Listen. Shut the fuck up. The math is really weird and some of this stuff just happens and you can't visualize it in your head. We didn't believe it at first either but after 50 years of experiments we have to just accept that reality is consistent with the math even if we don't fully conceptualize what that means even"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We are all just folds in this wonderfully weird thing we call spacetime!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

The prions of spacetime.

Out here folding along.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nice reference to PBS Space Time. The YouTube channel where I just get bullied with science, and for some weird twisted reason I like it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

pbs space time is awesome, and this description is even more so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Bullied with science sounds like a fun band name

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Hah! Time. Like that's a real thing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • When it's* a particle
  • When it's* a wave
  • it's* still doing that
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Phone stuff. Sorry about that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That sounds nasty.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

shrug I mostly browse Lemmy on my phone. I don't give a shit enough to correct autocorrect mistakes. My message was clear even with piddly little autocorrect mistakes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Totally fine by me. I was just making a bad pun. (I'm not the one who corrected you.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

rude bot

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You seem to be up to date with this stuff; did we find out whether there's more than one yet..?

Personally don't like the idea of everyone reusing the same electon for everything... seems quite unhygienic. I'd rather we had at least one per person, maybe share it with people we trust, if we must...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

We have to recycle nowadays. Besides we can't have people throwing away perfectly good electrons. They could end up anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've heard this weird concept repeated over and over but I've never once run across it in literature or in speaking to my particle physicist friend. Can you provide a source?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Thank you for the link. It makes sense I haven't heard too much on it. More a postulation than a theory. And kind of untestable/ philosophical too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

well fak. came here for a good time,
now here for a long time.
reading about positrons and shit.
thx though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You wrote a comment so good that I screenshotted it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Awww thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Of course waves can spin, it just does so in some conceptual "dimension".