#MATTER

[reality-detective]

I'll leave this 👆 here... You Decide 🤔

[todays-xkcd]

He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics.

Matter [Explained]

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[Tony Hawk (drawn with short hair) gesturing at a narrow whiteboard on which illegible things are marked, what may be a Feynman diagram with one of the particle/antiparticle pair going into a circle (possibly representing a black hole, and thus depicting the popularized (incorrect) analogy for Hawking radiation), and at the bottom, a 2x3 table of illegible values.] Tony Hawk: In the standard model, regular matter will annihilate if it comes in contact with oppositely-charged goofy matter.

[Caption below the panel:] Tony Hawk becomes a physics professor

[polyphonetic]

You are:

[cerulity]

People often complain about "how many genders there are". When you go through school, you learn that there are three states of matter. You also learn that there are two genders. Of course, this is not the reality. You may learn that plasma is a fourth state of matter, and that there are transgender or nonbinary people.

Let's take a look at the true number of states of matter...

I feel that if Bose-Einstein condensate is a valid state of matter, then girlflux is a valid label.

The real world is FAR from simple. Not even matter is binary (or quaternary).

[tinyowlthoughts]

"I want to be remembered as the Anti-JK-Rowling."

"JK Rowling the billionaire author (which, by the way, billionaires should not exist) who instead of using her wealth and reach to better our world has decided to spend her days on Twitter attacking trans people for having the audacity to exist. Imagine, you are one of the BIGGEST authors the world has ever known, writing books for standing up for what's right, only to turn into the villain you warned about.

"What a slap in the face that is. What an absolute betrayal. People like that - people who think that they are somehow better than others, more human, deserve to be shunned from society, no ifs, ands, or buts, and nothing less than just that. At the end of the day, Rowling has no idea who I am, and that's okay. I'm going to keep on doing what I'm doing, writing for my community who deserves to see themselves in books.

"Our stories matter. Important stories that show all the different facets of our lives. Stories where we get to be the heroes. Stories where we get to be the villains. Stories where our truths are put down on page. Trans and nonbinary authors like Ryka Aoki, Anna Marie Macklemore, Andrew Joseph White. Those authors are telling trans stories in a way that no one has ever done before, putting trans characters front and center where they belong in stories that defy imagination."

TJ Klune Library Journal Day of Dialog 5/9/2024

[lady-raziel]

I need the progressives to have a response to everything that’s happening that isn’t just this fucking image (challenge level: impossible)

[noosphe-re]

The very nature of materiality is an entanglement. Matter itself is always already open to, or rather entangled with, the "Other." The intra-actively emergent "parts" of phenomena are co­constituted. Not only subjects but also objects are permeated through and through with their entangled kin; the other is not just in one's skin, but in one's bones, in one's belly, in one's heart, in one's nucleus, in one's past and future.

Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

[slack-wise]

Maria Bartuszová

[philosophybits]

The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating.

Anaxagoras, Fragments, B17

[wayti-blog]

Webb reveals intricate layers of interstellar dust and gas

(These shimmering cosmic curtains show interstellar gas and dust that has been heated by the flashbulb explosion of a long-ago supernova. The gas then glows infrared light in what is known as a thermal light echo. As the supernova illumination travels through space at the speed of light, the echo appears to expand. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed this light echo in the vicinity of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A three separate times, in essence creating a 3D scan of the interstellar material. Note that the field of view in the top row is rotated slightly clockwise relative to the middle and bottom rows, due to the roll angle of the Webb telescope when the observations were taken. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC))

"We were pretty shocked to see this level of detail," said Jacob Jencson of Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, principal investigator of the science program.

"We see layers like an onion," added Josh Peek of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, a member of the science team. "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside. We just have never been able to look inside them before."

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[thepersonalwords]

Right is right, no matter how wrong the time is.

Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar

[kittyeatsworld]

POV: it’s the year 2000. You exit your university library after study hour to discover all the students are gone. It’s been 3 days and you haven’t found a single human being. The transit does not run anymore. You’re not particularly mad about it, and find new friends in the borderland.

[stone-cold-groove]

The mighty, mighty atom.

[lovepassionheart]

[dennisart]

"Perfetta Imperfezione"

- Dennis Art -