Chadmartigan

Chadmartigan t1_iu0zog9 wrote

Reply to comment by Alarmed_Economics_90 in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]

Close but I think you've got it backwards. It's the field that imparts the property of mass to certain particles, specifically: quarks, leptons, and W and Z bosons. The other gauge bosons (photons and gluons) do not interact with Higgs, and are therefore massless.

However, I do not understand how one would release or extract energy from Higgs.

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Chadmartigan t1_iu0nek5 wrote

Reply to Spacetime is not fundamental | Donald Hoffman by whoamisri

tl;dr: Spacetime is not fundamental because all particle dynamics are projected/encoded in spacetime by a sort of platonic object that exists outside of spacetime. Put differently, all the dynamics we observe (or more precisely, their scattering amplitudes) can be mapped to a mathematical object (the Amplituhedron). So what Hoffman is proposing is that spacetime (including I assume the objects within it) is not fundamental because spacetime (and everything in it) is encoded by some more fundamental object that exists somewhere else.

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Chadmartigan t1_itv3vr4 wrote

Reply to comment by Treczoks in Lightest neutron star ever found could contain compressed quarks | New Scientist by GullyShotta

I read a separate article stating that it's theorized that this star may be comprised of a high level (roughly 1/3 mass) of strange quarks, formed when the much lighter up & down quarks of its constituent nuclei fuse. This is just a theory; this hasn't been observed in any way.

If that is the case, though, I'm not sure how the mechanics of that work. It seems to me that you have to overcome the Pauli exclusion pressure to push two fundamental particles together. But I think this is possible given asymptotic freedom? I guess if it's going to happen anywhere, it would be a neutron(-like) star.

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Chadmartigan t1_ir1z3x0 wrote

Reply to comment by westplains1865 in Northeastern University package explosion was a hoax carried out by employee, complaint states by Darzanak

How are you not gonna mention the letter itself?

>He also told investigators he found a threatening note with the case that accused the lab of secretly working for Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg in a US government plot to take over society through virtual reality, according to the complaint.

Bringing his new Q fanfic to life. Imagine getting so bent out of shape about fucking metaverse.

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