Still think TITNC3: Return of the Iceberg was peak

I need a spring training spot. This way I’ll be ready for our 4v4 post MOASS tourney, air fry cook off, and poop olympics

who is in charge of the trophy?

 

We detect neutrinos by building facilities deep underground on the other side of the planet from the data center to hopefully pick one or two of them because neutrinos give zero shits and are so small they pass through matter like it essentially doesn't exist. The working model is that by filtering them through the literal earth we can detect a few of them every now and then. Atoms are like 90+% empty space. And neutrinos are small enough on a relative scale that an Atom might as well be the solar system

For all of our vainglorious efforts, humans still know pitifully little about the universe we live in.

 

Remember the Higgs Boson? The Gog Particle? The one we built LHC to find? And it did. Problem solved.

Until neutrino's told the god particle to fuck off? Yeah, we really like to think we are a supremely intelligent evolved species. In some respects we are. But that's limited to our current knowledge base and at 200,000 years old we still don't know shit.

 

My favorite sobering reality is knowing that humans are made up of more bacteria cells than human cells. And most of those cells are all empty space as well. It's theoretically possible that if all the atoms in my body and couch aligned in just the right way I could fall through the couch and land on the floor. Of course I'd be mostly a pile of goo at that point, but it's technically possible.

 

Yesterday I was thinking about the Big Bang. God? Physics? One shot deal regardless.

Then I started digging a bit deeper into Doppler's Red/Blue shifts. Follow me for a second here.

If there was truly a "Big Bang" that force was created in an absolute vacuum. Much like most of what we think of as space. Using our known understanding of physics that force would travel in an outward direction. EVERYTHING we observe should be redshift. It should be moving away. Yet, we can observe blueshift. Objects moving towards us. WTF?

Let's account for the fact that the big bang can only go so far before it somehow, through physics we don't yet understand, retracts. It basically creates it's own gravity to suck itself back into that original giant black hole. Every redshift we see should be well beyond any blue shift we see. It HAS to collapse from the outer edge in. Yet, we find blueshifts further away then redshifts. Answer?

There was multiple "big bangs". Yep. The multiverse isn't only probably. It's likely.

 

We'll get there eventually, I think. Long after you and I are dead, or maybe not if humanity destroys itself first. Even 'ole Albert Einstein couldn't come to grips with some of his later mathematical theories because he couldn't conform to what his belief that god said and what his math was literally telling him on paper were different things. I think it was relative to black holes. They didn't fit the "divine purpose" or something like that.

Not much more than a hundred years ago people flying in aircraft was deemed well outside the possibility of reality.

 

One of my other favorite math paradoxes is how do we actually touch anything? Lets say I stand 1ft away from a wall. I move a foot closer to the wall with my finger and cut the distance in half. Then in half again, etc, etc. I should technically never be able to touch the wall because you can divide by two into infinity.

 

I need a drink. I only think about things like this when I want to feel extra insignificant.

 

Don't worry, on a scale of being insignificant, your entire species isn't even worth it as a footnote in the universal record (along with the rest of us)

 

The next occupants of earth will certainly think that after they unearth the mess we left behind. Won’t be as fun as digging up dinosaurs, but far more amusing I’m sure

 

Who does that???

 

start from the other end. touching the wall, molecule against molecule, then 1 molecule apart, then 2, then 4, and then before long you’re one foot from the wall.

 

It's not a paradox. There's a fixed start and end point. Every division becomes smaller and smaller until there's a finite resolution. Zeno's Paradox is fairly easy to disprove. That said, don't fuck with Schrodinger's Cat.

I think about this shit every night before I can fall asleep. It's not insignificance I'm after. It's answers. lol

 

If you have a fixed point of reference on both ends you can't ever bring them together (provided the points can be infinitely small). And what's infinitely small? Atoms, and the parts of those atoms and the parts that make up those parts and so on and so forth.

I'm still waiting to sit on my couch and turn into a goo puddle.

 

Matter never touches other matter though. Well unless you smash atoms together. But in our day to day life no matter from your body ever directly touches any other matter.

Squeeze your fingers together. They're not actually touching on an atomic level. It's the forces surrounding them you interpret through your brain.

 

Yet you can still smash your finger with a hammer if you aren't careful

 

You asked for it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...esolves-zenos-famous-paradox/?sh=5a2194d833f8

 

You can vibrate atoms to a point where they heat up and cause damage to surrounding atoms/molecules and your brain can detect that. You're actually not ever hitting your finger with the hammer in a true sense. It's wild.

 

LMAO. I do that at least once a month. And I am careful.

 

All this big brain sciencey talk. Just remember Humans found some water, dirt, and plants, and managed to make WIFI out of it. I think simply. I'm never going to discover something life changing so I think of things very basic, and that's good enough for me.