#interference patterns

[sensationalsegue]

“You’re in the hand of the sea. You are the pleasure of breathing it in. Within an order that does not feel, we are this insignificant disorder that feels. A thing to witness the sea.”

~ Marguerite Duras, “The Easy Life”

It’s like every fucking sentence in this book is magic; the distillation of the essence of life or something something.

[d8tl55c]

well @illmoraineakoi ive switched phones since you asked this, but i have not(!) forgotten. it seems it was a tiny teensy itty bitty bit more complex to discuss than i expected ';3 or i just ran out of steam LOL, tco_physeng_breakdown.png was a lot

but i digress! let's get to it

a TCO power core generates energy via superradiant⠀scattering.⠀

at the part of their THROUGHLINE* that would be considered the upper-torso on a human, a cylindrical compartment holds a tiny spinning object called a black hole.

because the black hole is spinning, the gravitational forces pull spacetime strangely in an oblong region around the black hole called the ergosphere. when electromagnetic radiation (light) enters the ergosphere, it is yanked along by the spinning, amplifying it (in exchange for some rotational energy).

this is a theoretically** extremely efficient method of generating energy, because all you have to do to spin up the black hole again is feed it some kind of mass—literally anything—and the trade results in net positive power.

the superradiance part happens when the light bounces off of the container walls, sloshing in and out of the black hole's area of influence over and over, and constructively interfering with itself, to build frightening power very, very quickly. this is the motivation for developing a material like the superinsulator lining.

if the radiation doesn't reflect, it doesn't build properly.

if the radiation escapes at the wrong moment, it annihilates the entire local physics simulation.

if the radiation builds too much***, the container explodes, even more violently shredding everything nearby into free quarks.

so, above everything else, the compiler and physeng put extra care into these details....

a double-layer superinsulator surrounds the power core. the inner one handles active particles through total internal reflection, and the outer one cuts off the inner components from the outside world. this composite is so effective that it prevents TCO from feeling any sense of temperature in that area, and it absorbs so much ambient heat that it can feel painfully cold to touch them here.

a standard superinsulator lining wraps all the way around the rest of their body, protecting the channels that funnel energy to their limbs, weapons, and flight systems. their coat of feathers overlaps this layer, and both forms of armor protect TCO from burns.

the "weakest" superinsulators are at the hardpoints, where flames and lasers and things are refined and fired. this type of barrier is one-way selectively permeable, which means it allows certain things (like heat) to flow one way, but not the other (so TCO also cannot detect heat on their palms).

notably, the absence of heat sensation does not correspond to an absence of touch sensation.

*(the spine: compiled base code, storage, processing space, et. al.)

**(source: learn more about spinning black holes here!)

***(smaller black holes shrink faster than larger ones, and when spinning objects shrink, they spin faster, and when the black hole spins too fast it yanks even the most tame radiation above acceptable limits, and so there are several monitors and protocols in place to make sure the black hole will not get too small)

(further discussion of this diagram)

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in this context, a node is a region with little to no particles or energy or whatnot, and an antinode is the exact opposite of that.

right before using any special abilities, one or more antinodes are formed to provide the hardpoints with enough energy**** to function.

if the raw energy were somehow expelled without first being transformed, TCO could unmake anything they touched. Anything. there is no known material across the Outernet that would survive contact, and they would be likely to dissolve parts of themself in the process.

****(the hardpoints are actually some of the simplest components in this system. if you're a physicist with practically endless energy, you can make amazing stuff happen without a lot of hassle)

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[lokifreign]

flat tiling ghost noise

[ghostie-gengar]

tweaked trinket's design a bit to make her a little more unique!! there are probably a million cat sonic ocs so i did some research on a bunch of different wild cats (and went awww at every single one) and settled on a leopard! she's a clouded leopard specifically- look those guys up when you get a chance they're beautiful

anyways meet trinket! she's timid but friendly when you get to know her, loves fashion and sparkly things and one day hopes to be a designer. she is renowned for her ability to look good in pretty much anything. if you need fashion advice, trinket's your girl!

[13thpythagoras]

The biggest lie about the double slit experiment

[veryhungrykaterpillar]

JTOH ARTDUMP

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[musiclover2732]

i cannot keep quiet any longer. i just gotta say please it is 2024 we have come so far you guys have gotta learn more about dinosaurs and quite frankly a ton of prehistoric lifeforms beyond the mostly outdated shit in Jurassic Park and other cheap sci-fi films. like i say this as a huge Jurassic fan you have to understand that the movie franchise is based in “rule of cool” what can be a marketable toy and what makes a fun action sequence. paleo nerds: stop arguing about what is and isn’t “accurate” in the films; they are not supposed to be accurate they are supposed to make money your arguments are by nature pointless, redundant, and annoying as hell. non dino nerds: please do not have a movie made 30 years ago be your source of knowledge for real, previously living animals, in the same way you shouldn’t have Jaws be your source for sharks. pirate both seasons(?) of Prehistoric Planet, check out books at your local library, read peer-reviewed scientific articles, visit your local museums and ask questions. if i see one more thing about t. rex being unable to see movement, velociraptor being six feet tall, dilophosaurus having frills and venom, humans loving alongside dinosaurs, or spinosaurus looking like that i am going to lose it. like i know a lot of modern animals have misinformation spread about them and people who study them or just care about them work hard to educate people ig i am just extra passionate as someone who’s spent their whole life being as up to date as possible about not just dinosaurs but an incredibly wide variety of mostly Mesozoic creatures it just hurts to see how many people just don’t know or care about them outside of how cool they look on screen. like there were so many people arguing against the feathers (which doesn’t even apply to most dinosaurs) because it was ruining their childhoods and making dinosaurs uncool when that’s literally just what they looked like, like this isn’t a shitty sequel or reboot this is new information about real life animals you can’t argue against it. they get treated like kaiju that paleontologists are designing rather than animals we’re learning more about.

[knotty-et-al]

[Twisting the turning - re-wiring the liberated self]

[2023/08/30]

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Figure 4.23 shows examples of the characteristic intensity patterns displayed by waves. In figure 4.23a, water waves radiate away from two bobbing floats and form a standing pattern. In figure 4.23b, diffracted X-rays form a similar wave pattern. (...) Both experiments generated patterns like those shown in figure 4.23b, confirming the validity of the de Broglie equation for electron wavelengths. (...) In recent years, scanning tunnelling electron microscopes have produced images of electron waves, an example of which appears in figure 4.23c. Here, two atoms on an otherwise smooth metal surface act like the floats in figure 4.23a, and cause the electrons in the metal to set up a standing wave pattern.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[21st-century-minutiae]

Iridescence is an optical phenomena where the color of a surface varies based on tiny changes in the angle you observe it at, creating a rainbow effect. It can be caused by having a very thin layer of a semi transparent material over another, such as oil over water, or a soap bubble over air. Moving even slightly can cause the 'rainbow' to move a lot, causing an unnatural-looking coloration.

A 'puddle at a gas station' is likely contaminated with oil or some other industrial chemical, causing an iridescent effect.

In the early twenty-first century, people will be familiar with iridescence on account of the many iridescent objects and insects, though they are unlikely to know the name of the effect.

[lokifreign]

difference 25 tile oo1

[processzine-org]

tally_time |||| / keeping count / losing count distorted memory of passing units misread timecodes / misheard marks a field of meaning, blurred at the edges

(from a 64x90 visual called “tally” — reshaped through proximity, blur, screen interference. how we mark time, how time marks us.)

[maidenvault]

The fun thing about this if you were a kid in the 80s/90s was that often it would be a very fleeting thing because you didn’t have constant access to something or an easy way to dive into learning more about it on the internet. Sometimes you’d just start watching the second half of a movie that was on TV and it would be the coolest thing you’d ever seen, but you’d have no way of tracking it down to see the rest or watch it again unless it happened to be at Blockbuster. Especially if you didn’t even know or remember what it was called or weren’t precocious enough to find a TV Guide and investigate.

Look SO many things are better as an adult, but I do so very genuinely truly miss the childhood experience of going completely insane over something at the drop of a hat. As an adult you need the right cocktail of drugs weather humidity feng-shui and job prospects to feel like a piece of media can rip you into orbit. As a 14-year-old all it took was the worst Naruto reruns in the world playing at 10pm in your childhood basement. Unmatched experience. Irreplicable. Truly a once in a lifetime gift as an apology for the experience of being 14.

[culturedarm]

On Elucid's staggering 41-minute mix Interference Pattern the rapper continues to expand his sonic palette while recapping some of his best features from across 2024.

https://culturedarm.com/e-l-u-c-i-d-interference-pattern/

[jadeseadragon]

Repost @geometriasagrada.en

"The meeting of two tides reveals a fascinating phenomenon of wave interference in the Qiantang River in China, where the forces of the water overlap and create geometric patterns on the surface.

This visual effect is not just a natural curiosity, but a clear demonstration of how geometry is an omnipresent element in the fundamental processes of nature.

Wave interference teaches us about the interaction of forces that shape the universe, showing that harmony and balance are fundamental principles that govern both the micro and macrocosm."

~

“To know the mechanics of the wave is to know the entire secret of nature.” ~ Walter Russell

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[whats-in-a-sentence]

First, each electron and each photon will always be found to go through one and only one of the detectors; that is, you can determine which path each electron or photon follows, and you will find that it always goes one way or the other, not both. Second, you will also find that the resulting data recorded by the main detectors have changed. Instead of getting the interference patterns of Figure 4.3b and 7.1b, you get the results expected from classical physics, as in 4.3a.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene