We really gotta stop writing dystopian sci-fi, they have 100% of the time just taken all our warnings as their own best ideas and implemented them

I’m really focusing on saving up for some stickers with flames on them, that’ll speed it up as much as I can afford for a while

In an ideal world everyone would be completely scientifically literate and well read. In the real world we need to allow for people who don’t have the time or past education but who are interested and can get drawn in by simple titles on social media and manage to find articles that communicate science well enough to get them a foot in the door, hopefully to the point they then get into reading the actual papers. Someone could have linked the actual paper here. That title wouldn’t have drawn in newbies, it’s “Strings from almost nothing”. A novice to sciences would have little to perhaps zero idea what that means. At least this gives an idea, and it wasn’t really misleading in the way clickbait is, it was just shorthanded enough to make pedantic curmudgeons triggered enough to complain about it and rattle on with me in comments.

The title, due to a necessary brevity in how titling works on social media these days, doesn’t convey the actual meaning of the finding - they aren’t saying they found the theory in their data or observations or calculations, they’re saying in their data and observations and calculations emerged a core, defining feature of string theory. They didn’t find the theory, they found a very specific feature that is found in string theories, and that’s pretty neat.

“In a string theory framework, as you increase the energy transfer between particles, you will see a swift fall off in the probability that the particles will scatter. It’s like the particles don’t even want to scatter off one another, but rather pass freely,” Cheung says. “The scattering amplitudes don’t go to infinity. It’s better behaved.”

The researchers used this ultrasoft behavior as one of their core assumptions. They also assumed a property called “minimal zeros,” which limits the number of special points where scattering probabilities vanish.

“Remarkably, consistency requires scattering amplitudes not only to interact but also to not interact at special kinematic points called ‘zeros.’ The assumption of ‘minimal zeros’ demands the sparsest number of such vanishing points mathematically allowed by the equations,” Cheung says.

From only these assumptions, the researchers demonstrated mathematically that the resulting solutions naturally reproduced the central features of string theory, including its characteristic spectrum of particles and interaction strengths.

“The precise details of string theory emerged automatically, including the infinite tower of massive spinning particles that form the ‘harmonics’ of the string that the theory is famous for,” says co-author Grant N. Remmen (PhD ’17), the James Arthur Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University.

I was pretty shocked that it’s got integrated support for split screens, AR, VR, etc. I’m old, so that just seems amazing.

It’s already too late, at this point they’re just destroying our ability to monitor and produce models so we know exactly how bad what’s coming will be, when exactly and where, but there’s no stopping it.

He’s not alone, but he’s the wealthiest person in the US, and one of the wealthiest in the world - so he has more culpability than nearly everyone else, especially considering his actions were said to be by himself some of his personal goals and pet projects, of utmost importance. He literally funded trumps election in large part and the Republican elections in general, while also making a massive non monetary donation of media exposure through twitter algorithm shenanigans and personal posts, so that he could get into the government himself and perform those deeds he did under doge and under the purview of the executive branch. He was considered a shadow president for a period of time thanks to all those acts.

Nothing in the universe is faster than the evangelical misinformation hate and fear pipeline

Easy, it’s the difference between a service and a business. War is a business, run by profiteers who charge $1000 to produce and deliver a hammer or a toilet seat, whereas historically the postal service was a pure need met by the government and subsidized by the people, but seen previously as such a critical means of transferring critical information, news, it was necessary to prop up the entire economic system by transferring contracts, documents for business, government, personal dealings, so it had to function and the cost was not a consideration, gouging wasn’t dreams of, and it piggybacked on all the major and newest modes of transportation. Today greed and political malfeasance has intentionally spread the idea that the postal service should be profitable, for some to kill it off or raise prices to enrich their own investments in competition, for some to damage voting by mail, for some to further sow distrust in reliable government services to convince the masses that the government is entirely incompetence and untrustworthy to run such programs to further privatize various industries.

It was cheap because capitalists relied on it to enrich themselves. Now they can do their business in other ways cheaper, so they can do what they always do - raise prices, enshittify it, strip the parts and sell them off once people lose faith in it, then use their corporate monopolies that provide the same services to gouge the populace that previously paid pennies for the same services.

That actually sounds like exactly what would happen if the confederacy gains control of New York

Same. But if you pay attention to the reality tv survival shows, the first people on the chopping blocks are the ones that pose obvious threats. That’s zuck by a mile. It’s also how modern right wing govts are being run. I have no doubt it’s how the first gangs in an apocalypse will be run.

The problem with zuck is you have to have a community to survive any situation where the systems break down, and he’s not likable enough or social enough to stay in or properly form a community. He made his money with an antisocial hot girl rating site that turned into apps that fed off making people insecure and scared constantly so they’d forever doom scroll. He is incapable of defending himself from multiple tribes simultaneously, including his own.

Always have been. They just want to play god among men a few more times before they run into their bunkers and end times yachts, and their idea of god is the Old Testament one, where it’s disdainful, demands fealty, is cruel, uncaring, vengeful, requires constant sacrifices to the already stripped down servants, and constant adulation in the form of chants, statues, regailings that hail them as superior and well loved.

Are you nuts? Do you know how much a pizza party costs? You little ungrateful shits, we’re gonna buy even more yachts now

It wasn’t, it was supposed to plug the holes in the dike of the President’s historically low approval rating and distract from certain files

You gotta ask yourself - is our students learning?

We humans make it, too.

Wahh wahh

Are we just sharing common sense considerate road laws? Because I made sure to explicitly say these people are raging behind me in the right lane, not left. They just seem to get on the road to be a jerk.

It’s been a few months since I’ve had a truck come up behind my mom mini suv mobile and honk and rev angrily for literally no reason, and that was a weekly occurrence for the last handful of years. They can’t stand people people do the literal maximum speed limit in the right lane for some reason