When light goes through a circle, rings appear. When light goes through a square aperture, straight lines appear, so we see the pattern dictated not by magic in the aperture but by the geometry of the surfaces the light interacts with. The double-slit pattern is the same two overlapping single slits, only there is a large separation between the outer surfaces that gives rise to fine fringes, and a small one between the inner surfaces that gives rise to coarser envelope fringes, resulting in bright spots in the areas where the two interfere. This is all there is to it. Large apertures have bright centers because most of the light does not hit any surface at all. Small apertures have only fringes because almost all photons are affected by the surface edges. The superposition of two waves never produces a double peak or an odd number of nodes, and yet physicists created the entire concept of wave superposition, Heisenberg uncertainty, and “particles everywhere at once” based on a misunderstanding of this surface effect, just as they created the ridiculous concept of kinetic energy that don’t match reality.
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Racism isn't normal because no other species is racist. For example White cats don't have prejudice of Black cats, but White humans call me nigger
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While suicide could, in theory, be a rational decision when one’s quality of life is less valuable than nonexistence due to things such as being terminally ill or enduring excruciating pain, ordinary instances of hopelessness are rarely, if ever, at this level since they are only temporary lulls. However people cannot give consent to be born in a world which is filled with suffering. It is therefore an act of rape to keep people alive forcibly. So everyone has a right to die if they want
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George Floyd didn’t die of an overdose he was murdered. Tear all Confederate monuments and replace them with George Floyd. Floyd is above Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama our first Black president, etc. George Floyd is this generations Malcolm X, Floyd is the new John Brown
I’ve been talking about springs and the idea that doubling the compression stores four times the energy, which doesn’t make sense because a spring only holds tension that you can see when the coils get together. Once the coils touch you can’t push any more. Put an object on a spring so it fully compresses and all the coils are touching then put the same object on two identical springs stacked on top of each other. The coils won’t all touch, there will still be spaces, because the total tension is the same and the weight is now spread twice as many coils so each one is pushed less. The weight can’t suddenly create twice the pressure by adding another spring. The same idea shows that half the weight only pushes a spring half far and two springs with the full weight act like one spring with half the weight on each coil. When you place a weight on a spring the spring takes in part of the force as it compresses so the ground below doesn’t feel the weight right away. The pressure comes up slowly. That middle part is stored as tension instead of being given all at once. That’s why springs are not reliable, in experiments that try to measure energy. They don’t give up their stored tension evenly. Thinking that compression always matches the quadratic formula ignores these basic mechanical limits.
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Once an individual is dead, their consciousness is gone, leaving behind just a temporary dead body or sometimes nothing (like if you die by an explosion your corpse is gone) hence, the experiencing self that was them doesn't exist. But people should still give a damn about people who don't exist anymore because the feelings of the living loved ones are real, because there can be an everlasting legacy of the deceased, because absolute indifference towards the dead will mean wiping out the history, continuity, and memory, which many people will not find livable, and because the way we deal with the absence affects our relationships with each other. There are about 117 billion humans who have been alive since human beings started to exist several hundred thousand years ago, several hundred million to well over a billion people have been murdered during human existence probably, calculating how many sentient life forms have ever existed on planet Earth cannot be calculated, its way beyond trillions, especially if there's life outside Earth. God bless the dead, God bless those who got murdered, committed suicide etc., and the rest of all dead sentient life forms. I don’t like pedophiles, rapists etc. but the rest of the dead people and animals. The living make the world turn, but the dead make the world live
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Capitalism has killed MILLIONS more people than communism btw. Communism hasn't killed even 0.1% of the ammount capitalism has killed
Mussolini publicly defined fascism in direct opposition to socialism and left-wing ideologies dumbass
Replying to @Busted_Crab @IAmDraShon
Communist policies require central planning and force. Communism and fascism are ideologies that require centralized planning and gov coercion.
Both are totalitarian, left wing ideologies.
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Absorption and reflection cannot occur simultaneously. The textbooks state that in case of throwing a ball against the wall, the wall along with the entire Earth absorbs twice the momentum of the ball bouncing strongly. That statement is false. In case the object is movable and capable of doing some work, the bounce is weak and the reflection is low, you receive only a half of that bounce back. In case the object is too massive to move, thus incapable of doing any work, the reflection is strong. Similarly, it works with the catapult. In case it is fixed to the ground, the total energy is released to the projectile. In case the catapult is placed on the wheel in order to be able to recoil, the projectile receives a half of the total energy. Measuring the force, one receives a pattern of strong bounces in space. As long as an object is movable, it takes some energy, thus its bounce becomes weak, if an object is not movable, it is unable to take that energy, thus the bounce is strong. Reflections alone are not capable of adding the momentum in any magical way. It cannot happen simultaneously. The simple law is as follows: the impact of bouncing a ball on the floor is reduced if you can move to absorb it, while if you cannot move, it is not.
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