This is why I always appreciated that Brakebills in The Magicians was basically grad school with better dorm life.
What’s the middle bottom one?
That orb in the middle of the apparatus is The Demon Core, a piece of plutonium produced during the Manhattan Project, for a third nuke which was never needed. So it was used for criticality experiments, which is where those hemispheres come in.
Anyway, in those experiments it was key in a few accidents, which caused the deaths by radiation of several researchers. After the later bout of experiments, the core was scrapped.
Idk how you can include all this but not the Kyle Hill documentary
Good point, thanks for pointing to it.
(Also, pro tip: take off that ?si=… stuff from your link, that’s tracking tags)
The “not a demon” guy is going to have a real bad time.
Just don’t build a house of neutron-reflective tungsten carbine bricks around it or cowboy the beryllium hemispheres, hell, maybe just trust the last guys’ calculations instead of testing for closeness to criticality. Safe as houses.
Fool me once, shame on… shame on me. Fool me twice? You can’t get fooled again!
Because of the fatal dose of radiation.
He will not sacrifice an entire room to a deamon. I repeat, it’s not a sacrifice of everybody in a room for a deamon.
Saw a working mercury arc rectifier for the first time recently and those things are wild, definitely don’t look “right”
Yeah, don’t touch it or it kills you with a lightning strike.
Man, 2 full bridge rectifiers in the same meme?
This is either electroboom, or struggling for things to fill a memeWhere’s the second one
By elimination it must be the “what the fuck”
Edit: Yeah, that’s it. Someone below mentioned a mercury arc rectifier.
Ooo that’s exciting. At a glance without paying attention it looked like a reactor with cherenkov radiation
OK but electromagnetics is totally magic.
The difference between physics and magic is that physics works by describing the forces acting on a system. To predict an outcome, you just progressivly apply those forces over time.
With magic, you just specify the outcome, but not how you get there.
This is how we know that thermodynamics is magic. Conservation laws and Lagrangeans too.
Shit gets spooky when you consider proton non decay at its utmost consequences
Tell us about the spooky, dammit
Dudes a fucking tease
Right??? You can’t just say something like that and then ride off into the sunset
I’m no physicist but researching this topic leads me to believe the person who posted the top comment is either a physicist worried about things that don’t impact others, or someone who has discovered the elixir of life and will live a thousand generations.
According to perplexity, there are only 2 noteworthy consequences this could have, both of them relatively meaningless for most people’s existence today.
First is what the end of the universe looks like (not a problem we need to worry about for all practical purposes) - If protons decay, all baryonic matter would eventually be converted into gamma ray photons and leptons. If they don’t decay, the matter will eventually be converted into… photons and leptons… same stuff, but it’ll take longer. Big whoop.
Second is the implications on particle physics (again, not a real problem that substantially affects anyone’s life besides actual physicists) - since the stability of protons implies the conservation of the baryon number, which is a principle of the Standard Model, if protons don’t decay then… the standard model we already have is correct, and newer theoretical models attempting to unify all the forces will have a harder time doing so. That’s literally all it means, and impacts literally nobody except physicists AFAICT.
So to the top commenter: either tell us your dirty secrets or get out of here with your alarmist crap.
I’m spooked though
I love mercury vapor rectifiers!
Bridge Diodes current regulation are considered physics? I mean, yeah, but about as much as any other science field, right?
It’s electrical engineering if anything
Electrical engineering is an application of electrical physics
Site, but that’s like saying “writing is an application of language”. The profession of writing is immensely different from the profession of inventing or studying a language. And the profession of electrical engineering is substantially different from the profession of studying electrical phenomena. There’s certainly overlap but it’s different fields.
Electrics are a branch of physics
So you’re saying Electronics is Electromagnetics is Physics?
In that case Biology is Chemistry is Physics and therefor Medical Doctors have degrees in Physics. If you feel like fighting me I will await you out back.
First of all, yes - Electromagnetics is a branch of physics. James Maxwell was a physicist.
Second - Electromagnetics is not electronics. Electronics is a field that applies electricity and magnetism to make useful things.
Yeah but Electromagnetics is the DEEP magic behind electronics.
You could, if you wanted, use quantum mechanics and electromagnetic field theory to do circuit design. But unless you’re building quantum computers or doing simple circuit analysis and wanted a real challenge applying Kirchhoff’s Laws, there’s no need.
So you can use the simplified electronics model where the current (and therefore primary charge carriers) is positive.
Source: I am an electronics
wizardengineer.Electronics is a field that applies electricity and magnetism to make useful things.
No, That’s electrical engineering.
Electronics is specifically the study and application of devices whose properties are determined by the charge carriers themselves (the electrons), ie. band gap semiconductors.
Whether it’s science (physics) or engineering (EE) depends on why you are doing whatever you are doing. Understand stuff? Science. Make stuff that does stuff? Engineering.
Of course, there’s a lot of bleed and cross pollination on the bleeding edge. This is known as the science/technology feedback loop.
So then Bridge Diodes are not Physics.
Dude, I’m sitting right now in front of a building full of people that basically study PN junctions for a living. If I tell them diodes are not physics they will be very upset.
Sorry to upset the analogue stereo repair shop but you’re not exactly Stephen Hawkings, okay?
Right now I’m standing in front of the building, so I’m definitely not Stephen Hawkings. Also I’m not dead.
Also also, Hawkings was talented, but not a solid state physicist.
If you want to troll here, you need to up your physics game. At least pick a relevant dude from the scores of Nobel prize winners my discipline has brought forth in the last fifty years or so.
YOU ARE NOT RANDOM TV SCIENCE GUY I’VE HEARD OF doesn’t work here.
I learned cursory electronics and circuits in my physics curriculum.
Computers are magic.
Circuit boards are basically runes, written in stone and inlaid with precious metals to conduct pure energy around in very specific ways to do pretty much anything we wish.
It’s sand we carved into patterns and tricked into thinking with tamed lightning.
Then there’s RF (radio frequency) which is the DEEP magic.
As someone who is trying to get Meshtastic to work I feel this. My pocket node can connect to people 50km away, but the base station with the chongus antenna can only connect across town?
I’ve always told my students that programming is just magic. If you get the right combination of words and symbols, the magic lightning rock will do your bidding.
We write incantations to make the magic rock think and give us answers.
The best evidence of this is the “magic / more magic” switch.
We sometimes conjure fireballs but it’s totally from a certain type of invisible gas and also you can’t smell the gas but it’s definitely there and NOT MAGIC
Plasmabulb in the microwaved lightbulb?
Just about anything with “black,” or, “dark,” in its name, be very skeptical. 🧐 But quantum entanglement, that’s the good stuff. Only GR’s SpaceTime mechanics comes close to being as crazy.
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Quantum Tunneling, Quantum entanglement, statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Spooky action at a distance
Einstein looked into that shit and was like ‘nah fuck that homie’
And that’s not even the worst part. Its theoretically possible,that every single electron is the same.
Utterly deranged
Imagine thinking there’s any situation in which particles appear to move faster than the speed of light.
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
