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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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  • alien: hello i come in peace
  • me: bro wtf an alien
  • alien: yeah totally
  • me: dude that is awesome how can i totally be of assistance
  • alien: take me to your lizards
  • me:
  • me: bro did u mean leader
  • alien: *hands me a satellite image of a t rex* nah bro take me to your lizards
  • me: bro...... you just.... im sorry bro....you just missed um man........ u just barely missed them
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szimmetria-airtemmizs:
“ We have three colored segment in this animation. Surprisingly the length of the longest one is always the sum of the length of the two smaller ones.
This is actually a very special case of Ptolemy’s theorem. The theorem gives...
szimmetria-airtemmizs

We have three colored segment in this animation. Surprisingly the length of the longest one is always the sum of the length of the two smaller ones.

This is actually a very special case of Ptolemy’s theorem. The theorem gives a connection between the sides and the diagonals of a cyclic quadrilateral. In this case the length of the dashed lines is equal so the theorem can be simplified to the statement above. 

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Can you lick the science? An abbreviated list.

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Genetics: Do not. Unless cheek swabs?

Chemistry: NO!!!!! DO NOT!!!!!!

Archaeology: Perhaps. But might be human bone.

Geology: Sometimes needed, sometimes dangerous 

Psychology: Best not.

Physics: ????????? How??????

Zoology: In zoology, science licks you. 

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Anthropology: Maybe ask first.

Herpetology: bad plan bad plan BAD PLAN

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Sociology: Yes, if you have time and dedication and a willingness to piss a lot of people off.

Botany: You might hallucinate or die, OR it might be delicious

Computer Science: the tingle of electricity on your tongue is how you know it’s working

Epidemiology: FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD PLEASE DO NOT

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Linguistics: Despite the name, please probably don’t.

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Engineering: Maybe, but it’ll probably taste like spreadsheets 

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Software engineering: nothing else has made the code work so you might as well try it

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“ Black Holes are not so black! - Part 1
A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping it except through quantum tunneling behavior.
How...
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Black Holes are not so black! - Part 1

A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping it except through quantum tunneling behavior.

How can you get out of one?

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To get out of the earth’s clutches, we need to travel at least at 11.2 km/s also called the escape velocity.

Similarly, since the gravitational strength of a black hole is so strong, the escape velocity ( if you intend to leave it ) exceeds the speed of light.

Where does it gets it’s gravitational powers?

To understand this, let’s do a thought experiment: What would happen if we compress earth to half its present radius without changing the mass density?

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The gravity at the surface would be four times more because of the “inverse square law”. It gets stronger at shorter distances.

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And now, say you keep on decreasing the radius even further, the gravity would just keep on spiking to phenomenal levels. This is the secret to the Black Holes extraordinary gravitational powers.

How are they even formed?

All stars follow a life cycle. I will elaborate on the life cycle in another post, since its kind of long. But this illustration from sciteachers would do for now:

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Upon reaching a certain critical density, a star will collapse on its own weight. i.e Its radius will keep on decreasing and gravity swooping up at each stage untill it collapses to an almost infinitely small pinpoint.

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And that’s how black holes are formed and why they have such a huge gravitational pull on Objects.

Important Note:

Hope you learnt something new about blackholes in this post. This is a series and we will dig deeper as we move down the line. As they say- tiny drops make a mighty ocean. Small baby steps at a time everyday and at the end we will attain colossal clarity! Have a good one.

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Theories about the Origins of Space and Time.

1. Gravity as Thermodynamics
Entropic gravity is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force - not a fundamental interaction mediated by a quantum field theory and a gauge particle, but a consequence of physical systems’ tendency to increase their entropy. 

2. Loop Quantum Gravity
According to Einstein, gravity is not a force – it is a property of space-time itself. Loop quantum gravity is an attempt to develop a quantum theory of gravity based directly on Einstein’s geometrical formulation. The main output of the theory is a physical picture of space where space is granular. More precisely, space can be viewed as an extremely fine fabric or network “woven” of finite loops. These networks of loops are called spin networks. The evolution of a spin network over time is called a spin foam. The predicted size of this structure is the Planck length, which is approximately 10−35 meters. According to the theory, there is no meaning to distance at scales smaller than the Planck scale. Therefore, LQG predicts that not just matter, but space itself, has an atomic structure.

3. Causal Sets
Its founding principles are that spacetime is fundamentally discrete and that spacetime events are related by a partial order. The theory postulates that the building blocks of space-time are simple mathematical points that are connected by links, with each link pointing from past to future. Such a link is a bare-bones representation of causality, meaning that an earlier point can affect a later one, but not vice versa. The resulting network is like a growing tree that gradually builds up into space-time.

4. Causal Dynamical Triangulations
The idea is to approximate the unknown fundamental constituents with tiny chunks of ordinary space-time caught up in a roiling sea of quantum fluctuations, and to follow how these chunks spontaneously glue themselves together into larger structures. The space-time building blocks were simple hyper-pyramids (four-dimensional counterparts to three-dimensional tetrahedrons) and the simulation’s gluing rules allowed them to combine freely. The result was a series of bizarre ‘universes’ that had far too many dimensions (or too few), and that folded back on themselves or broke into pieces.

5. Holography
In this model, the three-dimensional interior of the universe contains strings and black holes governed only by gravity, whereas its two-dimensional boundary contains elementary particles and fields that obey ordinary quantum laws without gravity. Hypothetical residents of the three-dimensional space would never see this boundary, because it would be infinitely far away. But that does not affect the mathematics: anything happening in the three-dimensional universe can be described equally well by equations in the two-dimensional boundary, and vice versa.