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I don't understand gravity. if I spin a ball, objects resting on its surface fly off of it. how do we stick to the earth?

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link

dark matter has been a major component of shoe soles since 1906

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link

iirc centripetal force keeps us in a sort of fixed harmonious orbit around the earth's centre, as for gravity, well, help us caek

with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link

no one understand's gravity. it just is. things with mass are attracted to each other. that is the way of things. people are working on understanding it, but given it's the most familiar force on the day-to-day, it's odd that it's by far the most poorly understood.

lj's centripetal force comment is not even wrong.

caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link

i am getting better at science iirc - either that or i am now making sure i only say the stuff i know to be truthful

gravity is caused by god fyi

with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah I get centripetal force conceptually but gravity seems like mysterious magic and I was hoping someone had figured it out since the last time I took a science class

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't believe in god but it's hard to deny gravity

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link

p sure gravity is due to god

max, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link

im a scientist btw

max, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link

i love caek

shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link

like a fat kid loves caek

shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link

lj: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link

lol

sombrero galaxy would be a good band name

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link

;_;

plan to use that as awesome stealth zing though so all good

with 4 magical horns & 3 figures to impale! (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong

Something that is wronger than wrong is therefore more wrong than something that is not even wrong.

shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

wrong

shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

not as stealthy as it used to be thanks to peter woit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099488647/

(a+ book)

caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

RONG

caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

∞RONG∞

caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link

the rong ranger rides again

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link

~wtw~

shite new answers (cutty), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link

sombrero galaxy would be a good band name

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:54 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

STEALING THIS

nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link

also caek u rule and also again i solved the universe btw the other night on w33d and it has to do with magnets, do u want my theory y/n

nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link

magnets sound more plausible than god tbh and you can have sombrero galaxy btw

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link

dude

god is magnets

why do you think one magnet moves when you put another one near it

queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link

I thought I was moving it with my mind

鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link

it is like when the T-1000 was frozen and shot to bits but managed to recoagulate - god's design is beautiful and mysterious

queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link

popular 3-D cinema is also god's design fwiw

queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link

no gbx U rule, when we're both doctors let's start a blog called hipster doctors

caek, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link

ppl already think i'm the hipster med student cause i ride a bike and played in a band once. so cool let's do it

btw i am working on my explanation of magnets for u

nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link

popularpoppage 3-D cinema is also god's design fwiw

― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

noted schloar (dyao), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link

click here to see fresh young teens losing their anal virginity...in 3D

queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link

tbf that is the point at which we put human culture into a little box and fire it into a comet at ~high speed~

queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link

3D Porno wd be kind of self-defeating in its unsatisfyingness

STFU Alumni (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link

"Hey! Just look at these awesome 3D boobies all up in your face" is more distracting than arousing really

STFU Alumni (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link

i mean being caught wanking is one thing but wearing those goggles too i mean seriously now

queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link

btw LJ, is there an official definition of poppage that is more than just 'sex'

noted schloar (dyao), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link

zits exploding in 3D is much, much grosser than 3D porn

queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, 4 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link

'solving' the universe by making it destroy itself in sheer embarrassment.

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2750/27501101.jpg

well that's as clear as mud then

take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link

need more physicists to cheerfully admit 'we can't know that right now, but thanks for asking', then carry on with studying actual data.

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link

onion infographics like that aren't entirely physicists's fault, to be fair. there is codependent relationship between a certain kind of science and new scientist type publications.

caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link

basically www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2773

caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link

~god is a hologram~

max, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link

i have that tattooed on my back

max, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link

only in *this* universe

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link

btw caek i bet you feel the same way about this kind of science as many humanities profs feel abt buzzy crit theory papers

max, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link

ha, i hope so.

caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link

although i don't see many scientists defending the bullshit, and i know where to look, whereas finding people working in the humanities willing to defend the airless heights is a lot easier : ( is that fair or is this confirmation bias?

caek, Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link

popularising science kind of depends on pushing out a lot of fuzzy/dumbed down stuff, though?

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link


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