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Why you age slower on a plane (and other incredibly strange effects of relativity)
Einstein correctly predicted that time slows when you're flying fast, but to experience "time dilation" most spectacularly, you'd have to travel into a black hole.
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Okay... this:
... flying first west and then east around the globe before returning to their laboratory in Washington DC. There, they compared the time on their well-travelled timepieces to a set of clocks that had remained static. Remarkably, the clocks disagreed: the act of travel had seemingly altered the passage of time.
... disproves my understanding of the whole concept of "relativity"
But also - in my mind - makes the whole term "relativity" a fucking nonsense.
And... in the time-honoured fashion of imbeciles everywhere... I don't understand it, therefore... I don't like it.
Fuck you Relativity - I liked you when you made sense... but now you've turned crazy - fuck off-ski. -
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@antipodean I think that's describing how I'm not actually Sagittarius?
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@antipodean said in Science!:
Bloody Cantabs fucking up cosmology.
An article translating:
Cosmological Evidence Emerges That Dark Energy Is An Illusion
Cosmologists have long wondered whether dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion. Now the evidence backing this idea is mounting.
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@Machpants said in Science!:
Yeah it's a good YouTube channel. I think I prefer that is to 'oh yeah, our numbers don't work, so two thirds of the universe is made up of stuff we can't see or detect, that's why our numbers are wrong'
I do like the idea that you can get a Nobel prize for just making shit up though. Hope for me yet.
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inhomogeneities
Which having just googled it because I'm a nosey fuck, has a remarkably simple definition. Things which are not homogenous.
Should have spotted it really but can certainly use it in future when needing to sound like a piston wristed gibbon with some class "A" wankspeak (thank you for that term as well, one that is far more likely to get used).
More on topic, I stumbled on this the other day:
9 of the Most Remarkable Scientific Discoveries of 2024
Discover the new planets, moons, health advances, and ancient history uncovered in 2024.
Didn't know that they had found an Earthlike planet or that they had found a treatment for AIDS with this bit in particular "As more research is done on this drug, it’s possible that other vaccines that attack the capsid proteins of other viruses could emerge." Interesting stuff happening all the time.
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Wiki says more likely air burst than impact crater, but maybe damage up to 50 miles away from centre of impact.
Tsar Bomba nuke, as a comparison, apparently damaged up to 150 miles.
So not likely end of the world. Yet.
Would move away from the equatorial parts though ...
