I think you are stating that backwards.
You can definitely say that everything with mass has energy. And yeah the two are kind of interchangeable.
But that does not mean that a photon HAS mass. It just means that we can calculate how much mass its energy is equivalent to.
For what it’s worth, there’s a damn good reason that Einstein’s name is associated with being super smart.
Oh it gets even weirder than that.
One observer can see two events happen simultaneously while another sees them happen at different times.
And EVEN WORSE than that, thanks to length contraction at relativistic speeds, you could have one observer think that a train is contained entirely within a tunnel, but another observer sees the train sticking out both ends of the tunnel at the same time without ever fitting entirely within it.
and/or: One observer objectively masures that object A is longer than object B, while another observer objectively measures that object B is longer than object A.
The two observers are not just hanging out together, of course. They are moving ridiculously fast relative to one another.
The speed of causality is a hell of a drug.
I think they do move, but it’s slower than you might think. The voltage / EMF / potential travels super fast on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light, but the net motion of the electrons in a DC current flow slower than WE can move.
I think the word “relatively” in the previous comment is doing some heavy lifting.
If you are going to spend a few hours of your limited free time to plant the shrubs, even if the materials and transportation are free to you, compare that with the relative cost of a small environmental fine to a trillion dollar company building a billion dollar data center.
The people at the top might not even realize anything happened, if anything even does happen.
It’s that way with Webb since it focuses on infrared, but I thought hubble used the visible spectrum.
After a brief search, it looks like Hubble uses the entire optical spectrum which includes some IR and UV along with visible. It depends on the specific image, but the deep field stuff looks like it was a combination of visible and IR, which makes sense considering red shift. But the bluer objects were captured in the visible.
So they inevitably had to compress the spectrum for the photos, but speaking as somebody who has taken tens of thousands of photos in RAW format, all the colors in every photo are translated data. :) (that also goes for the screen displaying the final image using a mix of three wavelengths rather than the actual colors of the original light)
One of my all time favorite wallpapers is the Hubble Ultra Deep field.
Checkmate athei astronomers!
I wonder if he’s ever heard of Pascal’s Wager or the 800 reasons it doesn’t make sense.
You should tell him that the non-abrahamic god YOU believe in will not only send you to hell for anything less than 100% belief, but will curse your entire family/ancestors/descendants to the same fate regardless of their faith and deeds.
My boss for example fully believes that the earth is 6000 years old and that carbon dating isn’t real. Because and I quote “I am required by my faith to believe the earth is 6000 years old for it is in the Bible. If I do not believe it I will go to hell”.
I wonder if your boss makes any distinction in their mind between truly believing something and telling everybody you believe it’s true.
Windows has had a “fast startup” thing for a while where it hibernates just some parts of the OS.
I used to always disable it because I’ve run into situations where having it off prevented issues that appeared with it on.
Fortunately I don’t have to use any Windows machines on a regular basis now, so it doesn’t matter.
Yeah, I like to think of it this way:
Dark matter is not a theory or even a hypothesis. It is a collection of observations.
Having “matter” in the name is kind of a presumptive thing, like “our observations act like there’s too much gravity, and matter creates gravity, and we can’t see any extra shit, so…”
I wonder if many superstitions in rational secular people could just be bad terminology for behavior that can have some good reasons behind it.
One is using intuition to access your brain power in a way that’s different than conscious thought and verbal reasoning. For me at least, when I have spent months and even years troubleshooting or upgrading different parts of a system, I develop an intuition where I can track down certain types of issues really quickly or with very limited information.
There are often things that, in the wise words of Mr. Plinkett, you didn’t notice – but your brain did.
Second, and most important, is the ubiquitous one-two punch that there are always hidden variables and that they are by definition not easy to predict.
I have had my time wasted by way dumber and more seemingly random things than that worm drawing. I’m not a biologist but I could still speculate a bunch of potential reasons that, while wrong, would still be way more predictable than actual issues I’ve dealt with at work and home.
I can also predict that in that situation I would absolutely keep doing the drawings. My line of reasoning here applies to many other situations as well: The world is complicated. There could be a helpful effect from some part of the drawing process, or there could be no effect, OR there could be some crazy interaction of 3 different variables. Don’t change anything, finish the current task, then decide if figuring out the cause & effect is worth doing next. (some of that also comes from my internal voice tasked with keeping my adhd in check)
said it would be easy
Ah, the innocence of inexperience. (Giving them the benefit of the doubt of course. )
I work on old undocumented c/c++ spaghetti code for embedded systems. In multiple planning meetings I have gotten to use lines like “this looks like a single character change but testing it makes me really nervous” and have gotten zero pushback or raised eyebrows.
It’s usually a few laughs and often another engineer or our manager will chime in to agree with me and describe some more of the context or whatever, lol.
It’s like whoever is directing his actions just wants to twist the knife a bit. But there are so many evil fucks to choose from that it doesn’t really narrow it down. Could be a Putin “fuck the americans” thing, could be a Miller “fuck everybody” thing, who knows.
Yeah, but the countermeasures are client-side because that’s what you can control. And some kind FOSS devs out there make it easy to start somewhere decent.
If phase changes weren’t so badass we would be so fucked, lol.
It’s not KDE, but I think Linux Mint Cinnamon is a no-brainer for somebody who really just wants to use ubuntu.
However, as a long time Mint fan I recently had reason to switch to Debian 13 w/ KDE Plasma and it is pretty great.
But then I could go around asking “what do you want?” with a suspicious smirk in my face!