2y ago

Totally real science!

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"Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke
"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." - either Larry Niven or Terry Pratchett
I think both apply to modern science.
- "Any science that is distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced." - HawlSera Tygarus Enroygall
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
- Well when all of the atoms get together and unionize they can coordinate to point their charges the same direction.
  
  so magnets are socialism, got it.
I put lightening into rocks and trick them into thinking, then spend nights writing pages of cryptic runes to bend the rocks to my will. (Hobby electronics)
For I have gazed at the ancient and forgotten worlds with my craft. (I look through a telescope at distant objects).
Am I right in thinking the bottom right picture is of Cherenkov radiation, cause it definitely looks like it?
The eerily blue glow of photons and electrons moving faster than light through water, it's fascinating stuff!
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve
  
  Wow.
  Mercury arc valves remain in use in some South African mines and Kenya (at Mombasa Polytechnic - Electrical & Electronic department).
  Amazing how we're still using such old technology in some places when we have semiconductors.
- It looks like a mercury vapor rectifier to me.
  
  I've just seen the link @mustardman sent, and I had no idea a device like that existed. No idea how it works, but it looks interesting AF
This but unironically
Science is a liar sometimes

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