Are there atoms tho? Is there void?
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
734 points (96.8% liked)
Curated Tumblr
4072 readers
5 users here now
For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.
Image descriptions and plain text captions of written content are expected of all screenshots. Here are some image text extractors (I looked these up quick and will gladly take FOSS recommendations):
-web
-iOS
Please begin copied raw text posts (lacking a screenshot that makes it apparent it is from Tumblr) with:
# This has been reposted here to Lemmy as part of the "Curated Tumblr Project."
I made the icon using multiple creative commons svg resources, the banner is this.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The term “atom” at that point was a placeholder, not a specific measurable phenomenon.
I have come to think of it as all being probability fields.
When studying a particle, one cannot know both the energy and position of that particle with certainty (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle). When chemists think about the 3d "structure" of atoms and molecules, they represent the nucleus as a tiny little ball and the electrons as bubbles of probability: 
.
The nucleus itself is in constant motion as well, and compared to the size of the actual protons and neutrons, there is much more empty space - kind of like planets in a solar system. And each of these protons/neutrons is composed of tiny particles called quarks, which again are in constant motion and thus make up probability fields that we call protons and neutrons.
load more comments
(3 replies)
You are the only thing that's real in this world. YOU'RE IN A COMA．ＷＡＫＥ ＵＰ！
The lights flickered when I read this. I think that means I’m the real one and they upped my sedative to keep me stuck here. Oh well. Maybe I’ll get fun dreams out of it tonight, at least.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Wake up, Link!
omg qualia
omg u genius
I'm getting old and bitter.
We gotta preserve our curiosity and childish naivite. Imagine yourself a professor sharing a beauty of math -- the good ones are always as excited to explain it, as the first time they've felt it ^^
*Epistemology
ITT & OP-C: People without reading habits rediscovering philosophy in the 21st century
load more comments
(2 replies)
Imma invent a new image format that just counts all of the photons and their wavelengths
That's ridiculous. Our perspection is fully acceptable as proof of reality. The fact is that as our perception is limited, we are limited in our knowledge of the reality of things. Somehow mantis have an access to the reality of things we don't have and that dog don't have. And through their sense of hearing dogs have an access to the reality we don't have.