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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

At this point I have to admit that I am out of my depth. We need a real physics major to chime in.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Cool video. Doing the double-slit experiment in my freshman physics class is a favorite memory from college. Seeing it in person blew everyone's minds, even the kids who had learned about the experiment before.

If you google "is energy conserved in the double-slit experiment" you'll find some physics forums with decent answers. Basically, the total energy emitted by the light source does not change. Energy is conserved. Don't think of the laser light as a discrete beam that is being split off onto a second path. Instead, imagine that the laser light is constantly shining all over that foil and card. The dark regions appear dark because the light waves there are canceled out by interference from adjacent light waves. Similarly, the red areas are illuminated because in those areas the adjacent waves did not cancel each other out. The bright spots visible on the polarized foil occur because the polarizer blocks thin regions of the light, preventing them from canceling out adjacent light that wasn't blocked. So light wasn't redirected there, but was always there and was simply made visible to us by the effect of the polarizer.

Light, quantum mechanics, and the probabilistic nature of the universe are all real head trips. I still struggle to wrap my mind around them. As such, there's a good chance my simplistic paragraph above is incorrect or misleading, so take my answer with a grain of salt.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 36 points 20 hours ago

I ate the onion for a second there.

God damn, we are in the worst timeline.

Don't give them ideas.

 
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

There's a related morale patch that pretty much sums up human behavior:

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

Careful, that's how that one evil boyfriend in Scott Pilgrim died.

https://youtu.be/EZ8O6cIk7kY

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

I added "Throw pennies at Drewfus in his own house" to my time travel to-do list.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

If someone has the desire and the means to drop $10k on a hobby they love then I won't judge. Plenty of folk spend that much or more on musical instruments, or photography gear, or motorcycles, or a hundred other things.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980's by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-norwegian-salmon-industry-created-a-sushi-staple

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.

 
 
 
 
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