#physics theory

[pinkmoon-fox]

i want to get some new pretty notebooks for the new semester but i have so many empty ones here already :(( but theyre not pretty enough, or too pretty to just fill them with studynotes ughhhh

[dndspellgifs]

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

[spookietrex]

[tadfools]

You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on a chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

[keferon]

......So originally I wanted to make just a sketch of the hug scene but mhmgkhllgkh here we are haha

Based on Mistakes on mistakes until

+ close ups of their eyes because I sprinkled them with the tiny extra details

[moonstoast]

can you hear the music?

[diana-andraste]

Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium, Johann Zahn, 1685

"Emission theory or extramission theory is the proposal that visual perception is accomplished by rays of light emitted by the eyes."

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[muchanmocha]

We need to talk about this

What you need to know about this scene:

The outcome of this room was not what he wanted or expected — the close-up depicts sweating, dismayed expression, confusion

Luka intentionally came into this room with a knife — early production image on Patreon of him with a knife-shaped object likely walking here

Luka is the culprit — his arms are elbow-high in blood

Luka pulled a lever to sound the alarm and the segyein came running — as shown in frame order, the light of the alarm is flashing throughout this sequence

His close-up focuses on his inability to cry but his desire to do so — his sweatdrop follows the same path and drawn the same way as the tears during Hyuna's final scene. The illusion of crying is further enforced by the streak of blood running from his eye to the sweatdrop

It is a very human part of Luka that "cries" — The blood running from his eye to the sweatdrop is red not green

Additional context:

Luka's fellow clones seem to have been treated as disposable tools by the segyein on his behalf — in the first image the segyein performed surgeries on them to ensure the Luka's success rate will be higher when he goes through the "real thing"

Luka's drawing of paradise include only him, Hyuna, Hyun Woo, and his fellow clones — he and his fellow clones are faceless presumably because he hates his face -> He hates what he and they all are, but he doesn't hate the clones themselves

Putting everything together:

Luka shared a form of comraderie with his fellow clones. Knowing the fates they will be subjected to as essentially lab rats for his sake, he tried to free them by cutting them out of the pods. However they weren't able to survive and his naive rescue attempt ended with a floor of corpses.

Far from his intention of saving them, Luka became the culprit who ended their lives early with his own two hands. His expression shows the horror he feels from the price of his careless actions laid out in front of him. Literally.

He pulls the lever to sound the alarm that would summon the segyein.

It is simultaneously a sign of him giving up once and for all, and possibly a last ditch attempt to save the clones by alerting the segyein to the crisis he had caused.

At this point he does not care about Heperu finding out about what he had done, or the punishments that will undoubtedly follow.

-

This scene is so important because it's the root of his character's tragedy. The source of it all, which then impacted everything that followed, becaming the source of Hyun Woo's and Hyuna's tragedies too.

This is the one and only time we've ever seen Luka's horrified face up until then.

This is the moment that showed him the futility of his actions and broke his will.

[dailygihun]

day 23 || if gi-hun is actually offered the frontman role this is the only acceptable response

[stinkybrowndogs]

Hypothesis

[pinkmoon-fox]

1.4.24

trying to romanticise studying a bit more again. had a really rough time mentally earlier this year, up to the point where i had to postpone my exams bc of panic attack. i am better now, still not great but better. trying to work constantly but respect my minds/brains boundaries. we will see how it goes

[cosmicportal]

In May 1921, American polymath Walter Russell entered a 39-day coma-like state, during which he claimed to have accessed “the source of all knowledge.” Upon awakening, he frantically wrote down what he had seen — pages filled with philosophical, scientific, and spiritual revelations that would later form the foundation of his manuscript *The Universal One*. Though he sent his findings to 500 leading minds of the time, nearly all dismissed him as mad — except one. Nikola Tesla, the visionary inventor, was so struck by Russell’s insights that he urged him to seal the work away for a thousand years, insisting that humanity was not yet ready for its truths.

Walter Russell’s revelations reimagined the very structure of reality. He argued that matter was not solid but crystallized light slowed by thought — that everything around us, from rocks to human bodies, was composed of light patterns, shaped by consciousness. He believed the universe was fundamentally mental, not material, and that all things moved in rhythmic cycles — expansion and contraction, like breath. He dismissed opposites like good and evil as illusions, asserting instead that everything sought harmony and balance. To Russell, death wasn’t an end but the release of compressed light returning to its source. Even time, he claimed, wasn’t linear, but a spiral where past, present, and future coexisted.

These ideas were radically ahead of their time, blending metaphysics, wave dynamics, and a deep sense of universal unity. He believed electricity was a living spiral of energy, not merely electrons in motion, and that the vacuum of space was in fact a vibrant sea of untapped potential. Health, in his view, was the natural rhythm of the body, and disease was simply a disruption of that flow. Though ignored or ridiculed during his lifetime, Russell’s work now draws new attention in an era where quantum physics and consciousness studies begin to echo the same questions. To many, he is no longer a forgotten eccentric, but a prophet of a paradigm yet to come.

[the-great-horse-cocktail]

Alternate timeline where Stanley doesn’t accidentally ruin Ford’s project but he still doesn’t get into Geek Life University bc some kid showed up with a baking soda volcano

[silenab]

THE FIRST LAW OF HOLES, or the law of holes, is an adage which states: "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging". Digging a hole makes it deeper and therefore harder to get out of.

[daisys-reality]

some images i recently found about the multiverse:

Images from Robert Adlers article "Ultimate guide to the multiverse" on newscientist.com (23. Nov. 2011)