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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 13000163 times)

Sergarr

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83265 on: August 15, 2015, 07:36:24 pm »

there is only one way to end this
...with an obscene amount of light?

(yolo)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83266 on: August 15, 2015, 07:37:52 pm »

Wait, photons can be converted into matter but matter is affected by gravity whilst photons are not. Sheeeeeeit the Universe is terrifyingly simple, too simple for our minds to comprehend

there is only one way to end this
...with an obscene amount of light?

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83267 on: August 15, 2015, 07:41:10 pm »

Also he's in his late 50's making him the biggest and baddest among the greymuzzles.

wut

shit i thought that chakats are fairly new beings, didn't know that this guy made his legacy off of them

its a mad world
From a quick reading of furry stuff, it would appear sergals have been the new chakats for the better part of a decade or so.

Not that I would know anything about that.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83268 on: August 15, 2015, 07:42:48 pm »

Wait, photons can be converted into matter but matter is affected by gravity whilst photons are not.

okay i'm like 99% sure you're shitposting but

1.photons are affected by gravity

2. photons can be converted into matter, yeah, but you gotta conserve lepton/baryon number, so you'll end up with an anti-whatever whenever you make a whatever

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83269 on: August 15, 2015, 07:45:16 pm »

Wait, photons can be converted into matter but matter is affected by gravity whilst photons are not.
Light is affected by gravity, LW, that's why black hole are fucking black.

DUH x9001.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83270 on: August 15, 2015, 07:46:30 pm »

The dark side is just the side photons don't like

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« Reply #83271 on: August 15, 2015, 07:50:27 pm »

At some point B12 puns stopped being funny.
Or maybe they were never funny? My memory is a bit foggy on that.
This particular round's just notably bad. The ay nonsense isn't helping.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83272 on: August 15, 2015, 07:51:21 pm »

The ay is worse than the puns.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83274 on: August 15, 2015, 07:54:38 pm »

The ay is worse than the puns.
Yeah, it would've been bearable if it hadn't devolved into the crappy memes.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83275 on: August 15, 2015, 07:56:17 pm »

The weirdest hang-up I've ever seen people get on is light being affected by gravity.

Like, they're really sure of the idea that only things with mass are effected by gravity, which is wrong, but then they say that Einstein must have been wrong because it disagrees with something that is known to be wrong

i don't get it
Maybe because they learned the gravitational force equation


Obviously that's an obsolete model, since it doesn't explain gravitational lensing.  It's the one that pretty much works except for astrophysics though.  I certainly don't know how to calculate the gravitational pull of a massless thing, and the very concept is annoyingly contrary to what I understand "mass" to even be.

I mean, now I'm reading about solar sails and realizing that photons have significant momentum.  But no mass.  What the fuck

I'm not saying they have mass, because I know that an object with any mass moving at c would theoretically have infinite relativistic mass (and would take infinite energy to accelerate to that point).  But the normal conclusion from that is "So obviously they don't have any mass at all" not "They technically have no mass, but they behave like light (unheavy lol) particles despite moving at c.  Pulled around by gravity, and transferring momentum on collisions".

Relativity is WEIRD.  Here's something I found which seems like an explanation, of sorts... "Photons of light are not technically affected by large gravitational fields; instead space and time become distorted around incredibly massive objects and the light simply follows this distorted curvature of space."  Dunno if that's true, but sounds good.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83276 on: August 15, 2015, 07:58:07 pm »

Relativistic mass is not a thing. Or rather, it's an obsolete notion that just sorta leads to confusion and doesn't add to anything.

E=mc2 is wrong; the real equation is E2 = p2c2 + m2c4, where p is momentum, m is mass and c is the speed of light (or length/time)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #83277 on: August 15, 2015, 08:00:08 pm »

On most forums, arguments derail into shitposting. On Bay12, shitposting derails into arguments.
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« Reply #83278 on: August 15, 2015, 08:02:28 pm »

No, I'm pretty sure it went argument -> shitpost back there.
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« Reply #83279 on: August 15, 2015, 08:04:37 pm »

Dammit. I saw LW and physics and jumped to conclusions. Should probably check these things first, huh.
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