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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 196 points 1 year ago

Damn, this meme has some weight to it

[-] fujiwood@lemmy.world 145 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone always asks what is gravity.

No one ever asks how is gravity.

Poor gravity, always helping us keep our shit together but no one ever truly understands the weight on gravities shoulder.

[-] e033x@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

Excuse me, but I don't see why I should have sympathy with the boot on our necks keeping us all down. Just imagine the freedom we would have if we weren't weight down by this oppression!

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

dies b/c the atmosphere floated away

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[-] TheTurducken@mander.xyz 87 points 1 year ago

Perfect use of this format. "I don't know" is the foundation of wisdom. See: reddit where too many think they know.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago

See: ~~reddit~~ literally any message board where members of the general populace can freely participate where too many think they know.

FTFY

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

I know just enough to know that I don't know anything.

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 67 points 1 year ago

It's not difficult. Gravity is like magnetism for things that aren't magnetic.

[-] Rinox@feddit.it 59 points 1 year ago

Also for those that are magnetic

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[-] Kage520@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Sweet just tell me how to find same polarity gravimagnetics to put under my hoverboard

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think I'll be subscribing to this community. Thank you for the meme.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago

"The nature of this elementary particle is best expressed through these thirty equations."

"Ok, ok, but what do those actually mean in reality?"

"Reality?"

Most of those equations are full of things that can make sense, and then there is a fine structure constant.

It's all over particles, but we don't know what it is. It has no units. It's just a number that is needed for physics to work.

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[-] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 39 points 1 year ago

Working in neuroscience of consciousness field I feel him deeply. Although 57k sounds amazing to a Europoor

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

57k sounds nice until you realize that 1200 go to your health plan and you still need to copay hundreds every time something comes up.

[-] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 25 points 1 year ago

American salaries are also always presented as gross income before taxes instead if net income after taxes like in Europe.

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

we also do gross before taxes in Germany. 57k before taxes is still a solid salary in many areas of Germany. Some MINT and Financelords might want to disagree with that, but it is in the top 15% of salaries. At that Level you pay about 5,1k taxes, 5,3k pension and 4,6k for health, 1,3k eldercare and 750 unemployment insurance. (all mandatory)

That seems quite a lot at first, but for instance unemployment pays 60% of your net income up to a year qfter loosing a job, health insurance also covers all children until they are 25 or earn more than 500€/month.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It only sounds like a lot of taxes to us Americans that don't actually do the math... I'm making almost 60kUSD so it's a very real comparison for me. Like your 4.6k healthcare tax is my 14.4k pay cut (mandatory healthcare coverage for full time employees paid for by the owner @1,200/month for me) Your 5k general tax is higher than my 3.6k income tax, but everything else offsets that by such a large margin that arguing against it is laughable.

Thing is we also pay a ton of of pocket when we go to the doctor too.

I wish we had a number to use like your 4.6k but for America so in our arguments for universal healthcare we could show just how much more we really pay...

Sorry for all the edits, I remember as I reread lol

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

You can basically half American salary numbers because we have to pay for a lot of stuff that Europeans usually don't need to pay for. $57k in America is struggling if you live in a city. Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

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[-] wjrii@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The squishy humanities version of this, in America at least, goes as follows:

In grade school you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

In high school you learn that the Civil War was about a lot of complicated things.

In college you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 15 points 1 year ago

In Alabama you learn it's about Yankee Aggression.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

My mom (RIP) was a boomer born and raised in Georgia. In our house, we were taught that General Sherman was in hell right alongside Napoleon and Hitler.

If he is, it's for his handling of the Native Americans and bison and not for how he prosecuted the March to the Sea. The Confederacy was a boil that needed popping.

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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago

I still want to know what it is tho

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[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Genuinely we can't tell what it is. We once thought it was just a normal pull due to mass until Einstein proved us wrong during a solar eclipse where we could see stars that shouldn't be visible from our current position in orbit. Then we get into how it works, WHICH THERE IS NO TELLING AS THERE ARE TO MANY GOD DAMNED VARIABLES INVOLVED.

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[-] Mechaguana@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago

Gravity is just the world trying to put all the stuff in the same area of space to waste less RAM

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago
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[-] bdesk@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Show us on the PhD where they hurt you.

[-] Chronocortexica@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Somewhere in the region between the unrealistic deadlines, the post grad job prospects, and the price tag, sir.

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[-] DocBlaze@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

yes hello I'm here for the quantum fruit loops please

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Timey wimey wibbly wobbly.

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So here's my lunesta fuelled dea on gravity.

Gravitons, like the rest of the standard model, are real. In order to measure them, we need incredibly high energy collisions.

In attempting to do this, our universe was created on accident. This is because our universe is in a black hole. But the cool shit is that black holes are really portals into our own universe. Instead of the energy spontaneously appearing as measurable particles, it's dark energy causing the expansion of the universe. The Dark energy ends up being gravitons, because gravitons are a boson and only interact with matter with the gravitational force. the black holes, then, take in "normal" fermions and bosons and spit out the gravitons. The graviton release causes an expansion of space time by "pulling" space time with it.

none of that is backed up by anything

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 28 points 1 year ago
[-] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

Turtles all the way down.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

This is why I laugh at anyone who thinks we "Already know anything" or ever will

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a reason they call a hypothetical model that unites the standard model (quantum mechanics) and gravity (relativity) the Theory of Everything.

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