Ook the Librarian @ ook_the_librarian @lemmy.world

My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he

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If you like the ideas of the Green Party, vote for them at the local level. The fact that they don't seem to want to govern at the local level is enough for me to ignore them as an option.

That was pretty much my experience with it. It rocked me so hard that I finally went back to the OG aka Super Metroid, and give that an honest shake. And man, I had an amazing time.

The joke is that ben's mom will ask him how to open it. Ben thinks that it is possible, ben will have a bad time.

You're right. And I'm the one being less than friendly. It's nothing personal. It's just something I've noticed about myself. It's that I hate talking about physics on the internet.

I'm high on lemmy, not in my office. I read a terrible meme. So I open the comments, and see your comment. It was exactly what I was thinking. "Photons don't accelerate." Which I took to mean "your meme is bad and you should feel bad". And again, I agree, it is horrible, this meme.

I like to shoot the shit about, say, quantum loop gravity (i'm honestly clueless about it) with people at the office, but on lemmy, academics piss me off. I don't know why.

So from your reply, natural question arises: What about diffraction?

You went academic. I'm high. So I just steer them to a right answer while bringing up less academic (but valid (maybe)) ideas about philosophy. I did that because I hate when academics try to seriously discuss that "there is only one electron idea" and similarly unfalsifiable crap. That shit belongs on dumb internet forums with bad memes. And man did I find a bad meme. So was angling for a stupid debate about whether any particle can ever accelerate. You can't trace them from idenitical copies. Are they the same particle after an interaction knowing that force carriers exist in the standard model? Not an actual quantum field theory debate.

But to give you some closure. I do see that I clearly did imply a tree-level interaction in my initial reply. It is wrong to say a photon emits anything. You were also very direct in your correction. I read it along with other comments and must have confused myself. So in all the back-peddling I was doing, I was avoiding defining "an interaction". I was just trying to say any influence is an interaction. Not two photons touching on a diagram.

Also, I have a vague memory in grad school. Two people smarter than me were debating whether in a universe consisting only of 3 photons, would they be able to interact? I couldn't focus on what was said. I was having an existantial crisis. So I had that clacking around in the back of my head. So I'm just going to stop writing now, because as I mentioned, I'm high. So I should just stop.

Someone asked if diffracted light accelerated. I said no. A diffracted photon is a different photon.

I gave some lip service to the Feynman "there is but one electron" idea, and you seemed to take that personally.

If someone asks you if diffracted light accelerates, answer them how you want. I just thought it'd be cool to show them Feyman diagrams.

Ah, I see. Sorry for the snark. I was thinking more in line with the Compton effect, and thought you were talking about something like that too. (Even though it's clear that you were explicitly not. I thought you were denying photon-virtual photon interaction because I was talking about it in a funny way.)

I would still say it's still philosophical whether photons experience acceleration, but I concede that photon-photon interaction is not done by virtual photon exchange.

Are you claiming this is done without a force carrier? If you are working outside the standard model, I guess that's fine, but I don't want to spend time arguing with you.

I second that. The friendliness of the main help forum(s) for the distro is what's really the key, moreso than the software itself.

I think the correct response is "Wow. Has your mom seen it? Send her the link."

I don't understand. Are you saying you born in 20(-04)?

Since photons are indistinguishable, it's hard to say too much concretely, but it some sense a diffracted photon is different photon. In order for a photon to interact with say, a diffraction grating, the interaction is done with "virtual photons".

So for a photon to change course, aka accelerate, it does it by absorbing a virtual photon and emitting another. Whether that is the "same photon" after the interaction is kinda more philosophy than physics, at least to me.

Feynman diagrams are surprisingly accessible for how much information they contain. It's one way to think about photon (and other particle) reactions.

Now you have two problems.

Well, even if he has no intention of winning, the simple act of filing will cost any named watchdog media group money. I doubt too many are swimming in it.

The model A or the cybertruck?

By all medical logic, steam should be shooting out of your ears.

I'm quite surprised that he was found guilty. In sense that, holy hell, he took this to a jury!?!

Only if it negatively impacts your life.

This is also, generally speaking, the line between, say, having obsessive compulsions and having OCD. So if anyone is looking for a way express "haha, I'm totally ocd" without sounding dismissive of people with a serious disorder, just say "sometimes I have obsessive compulsions". That would imply it's nothing serious.

Same for PTSD. It's ok to experience post-traumatic stress after something "rather banal", like I don't know, seeing a stranger break their leg. And calling post-traumatic stress is fine. Just don't say "that baby on the airplane gave me ptsd." That's quite dismissive.

Anyone that needs help, go get it. Don't let that your problem feels banal be an impediment. If something is impacting your life negatively, tune it up.

Well, Jules didn't really choose what was 'served'.

That's sad. I liked the TV version of Good Omens better than the book, and I was hoping American Gods would be similarly good.

And the reference is a show that ran until 1997. So a small slice of the audience was too young at the time.