And then we taught those rocks to think in ways we don't really understand, and dedicated cities worth of electrical energy to allow them to think harder and faster, and gave them the means to improve themselves.
Why is the mercury arc rectifier getting a "what the fuck"? I don't know much about them, are they more magic than glowing rocks, runes, levitation and demon cores?
Just piggy backing this comment to save people a click. A mercury-arc valve is used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). It probably got a WTF for how weird it looks and how it looks like a crystal ball when it's working.
And what’s most amazing is no part of it is exaggerated or sensationalized
That's not true. The show is incredibly accurate for a TV show, but it's still a dramatization and adaptation to western's entertainment. It's not a documentary, and there are many pointed innacuracies.
Let's not forget they're fiddling strange multi pronged metal sticks, muttering about impedance matching, in a giant spiky room with large metal doors.
Lol I totally forgot about those! now that you mention it it does seem like some demonic room that was converted to some sort of spirit communication chamber that I expect in the Department of Control.
There are universal truths that span time and all eternity. One of those such truths is "The Scooby Doo." That truth states that it is never spirits, demons, apparitions, or anything unearthly that is the cause of the unexplained, but rather It's always someone you know. Usually, the person closest to you.
Forces. Forces are definitely observable. But they are fictitious. A photon (force mediator of the electromagnetic force) is a packet of energy on the electromagnetic field that creates a curvature in the electromagnetic field such that two particles with opposing charges (intrinsic charge) has that field curved together, resulting in what an observer would see as a force.
Gravity? The thing keeping everything on the ground? Not real. Just a result of the spacetime field being curved by the presence of energy in it. In order to escape the curve, you have to exchange energy, which is to be a force.
The fact that you knew exactly what I was talking about enough to pull up the relevant XKCD is impressive good sir/ma'am/(actually I don't know what the non binary term would be there. I know military it's "Sir" regardless).
Anyway it's still not clearly solved, several hypotheses, the Mpemba effect, a almost daily phenomen in which hot water freeze faster than cold one. Excluded evaporation as cause, because the effect is also observed in a closed container.
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owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 321d
I mean, sure, we kinda imbued rocks with lightning and now they can think but it's not magic
Agent641@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 320d
And then we taught those rocks to think in ways we don't really understand, and dedicated cities worth of electrical energy to allow them to think harder and faster, and gave them the means to improve themselves.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 320d
It's called computer science and it's not magic and why are you making a pyre
Agent641@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 320d
If it's memory bleeds, we can kill it.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 320d
It's less bleeding and more leaking, computers don't normally have liquids except for heat mitigation and what's with the stake and rope?
gbzm@piefed.social · 29 pts · 321d
Why is the mercury arc rectifier getting a "what the fuck"? I don't know much about them, are they more magic than glowing rocks, runes, levitation and demon cores?
CountVlad47@feddit.org · 25 pts · 321d
Just piggy backing this comment to save people a click. A mercury-arc valve is used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). It probably got a WTF for how weird it looks and how it looks like a crystal ball when it's working.
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 320d
Are you telling me that's a full bridge rectifier made of glass, liquid metal and plasma?🧙♂️
zululove@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 320d
That shits amazing
fullsquare@awful.systems · 23 pts · 321d
no, but they will also kill you (but not by magic)
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 320d
How so? Can I touch it? Lick it?
fullsquare@awful.systems · 6 pts · 320d
These things are under high voltage, so no. And then there's several kg of mercury inside
ameancow@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 321d
kadu@scribe.disroot.org · 16 pts · 320d
That's not true. The show is incredibly accurate for a TV show, but it's still a dramatization and adaptation to western's entertainment. It's not a documentary, and there are many pointed innacuracies.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 321d
No black magic here!
From The dudes using candles, incense, and chanting something about the machine spirit while using this:
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 321d
Let's not forget they're fiddling strange multi pronged metal sticks, muttering about impedance matching, in a giant spiky room with large metal doors.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 320d
Lol I totally forgot about those! now that you mention it it does seem like some demonic room that was converted to some sort of spirit communication chamber that I expect in the Department of Control.
sunoc@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 321d
Indeed high-frequency electronics only works if the machine spirit is apeased
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
THEY HAVE STOLEN THE MAGIC SMOKE GET IT BACK
Reality_Suit@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 321d
There are universal truths that span time and all eternity. One of those such truths is "The Scooby Doo." That truth states that it is never spirits, demons, apparitions, or anything unearthly that is the cause of the unexplained, but rather It's always someone you know. Usually, the person closest to you.
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 321d
Frequently some breed of capitalist trying to scam someone
nialv7@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 321d
magnets, how do they work
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 12 pts · 321d
But you want to know what is magic about physics?
Forces. Forces are definitely observable. But they are fictitious. A photon (force mediator of the electromagnetic force) is a packet of energy on the electromagnetic field that creates a curvature in the electromagnetic field such that two particles with opposing charges (intrinsic charge) has that field curved together, resulting in what an observer would see as a force.
Gravity? The thing keeping everything on the ground? Not real. Just a result of the spacetime field being curved by the presence of energy in it. In order to escape the curve, you have to exchange energy, which is to be a force.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 320d
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 1 pts · 320d
The fact that you knew exactly what I was talking about enough to pull up the relevant XKCD is impressive good sir/ma'am/(actually I don't know what the non binary term would be there. I know military it's "Sir" regardless).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 321d
If physics are not magic, then how do you explain magnets? Checkmate.
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
I picture someone like Grand Mage & Dervish Paul Dirac cracking his Special Relativity knuckles as he takes the challenge, "right then...!"
tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 320d
You might enjoy watching Richard Feynman getting asked how magnets work. It is on youtube.
luciole@beehaw.org · 9 pts · 321d
not a demon (it's worse)
marcos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 321d
You will spend a week wishing for an eternity of damnation instead.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 321d
Invisible forces controlling literally everything!? Nerd magic.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 3 pts · 321d
No no no, there are no forces. It's energy controlling invisible fields literally everywhere.
Physics, is it's own terror
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 321d
Full bridge rectifiers, not even once.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 321d
Oh boy, just wait until you hear about zero-crossings and phase-lock loops.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 321d
Anyway it's still not clearly solved, several hypotheses, the Mpemba effect, a almost daily phenomen in which hot water freeze faster than cold one. Excluded evaporation as cause, because the effect is also observed in a closed container.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 321d
Faster moving molecules will randomly arrange themselves into a lattice quicker than slower moving ones?
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 320d
Maybe, but scientist are still divided about the phenomen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-hot-water-freeze-faster-than-cold-physicists-keep-asking-20220629/
syaochan@feddit.it · 3 pts · 320d
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 321d
Quarks literally named magic, charm, top, bottom, vers.
zululove@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 320d
stevedice@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 320d
It took me longer that I'd like to admit to realize that the magic glowing rocks below Paradis in Attack on Titan were just nuclear fuel all along.
jankforlife@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 321d
Ill take one Glowing death aura please