#relativity of simultaneity

[not-a-fucking-mermaid]

Hello! I have a physics related question, specifically about special relativity and the relativity of simultaneity. And I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere so i'm hoping the science side of tumblr will help me out here. (and forgive me if i'm using incorrect phrasing here, english is not my first language and i'm just now *actually* learning about relativity, but i hope you're able to understand my question anyways)

Yk the train-and- platform paradox?

What I don't understand is why person A (on the train) sees the lightning strikes at different times just because in person B (on the platform) predicts they will (because B is perceiving the event from their own reference frame). This whole thing seems based on the assumption that person A and person B agrees that one of them sees the lightning at the same time and the other at different times, but I don’t understand why that is a correct assumption to make. If person B sees the lightnings at the same time, then they conclude they happened at the same time. And if they did happen at the same time, person A would in their own frame of reference also see the lightnings at the same time. So why does person A see the lightnings at different times just because that’s what would have happened in person B’s reference frame?

[chalkrub]

challenging myself by engaging in the ancient art known as "dynamic poses", but making it harder on myself by ignoring the noble practice of "using references"

featuring belvedere and florawell

[stranger-awakening]

One Piece Episode 102 / Episode 377

"I might not have the same bounty on my head as Luffy at the moment, but I swear to you that I'm destined to become the greatest swordsman the world has ever known. Surely that must be worth something."

[kradogsrats]

The stars want for nothing, and take all to their liking.

[sersi]

the ways in which brave new world's box office performance/critical reception is constantly used to attack and question sam's place in the mcu and as leader of the Avengers©️ versus the extensive mental and verbal gymnastics that happen anytime there's new evidence of d*redevil: b*rn again's viewership under-performance 🤡

[lieximhuman]

One of the funny things abt me as a brazilian is i cant fathom what europe is like- like yall just have countries right beside each other??? And the languages arent even close… like. That is. Such a universe to me???? Like i live not near any borders and would have to take multiple flights to get to what- Uruguai and its mostly forests and rivers between us? but some ppl out there in the world can apperently “not live close to a boarder” and take a train or car and just.. get to the next country??? What?

And then i get on tumblr and its like hey person that lives somewhere ive never been and will never will be that i can understand as a person but the food u eat and what life looks like out of social relationships is kinda crazy to me :)

[thegreatyin]

..........scoundrel.

scoundrel what do you mean you're relatively sure.

[worstloki]

Thor actually is a himbo. by the same logic by which Loki is a twink (<- the logic is incorrect)

[widowshill]

VAMP ROGER AU QUESTION! how would he and barnabas interact together (if they ever interact)? :3 💜

tagging @tortoisesshells because she's my co-conspirator <3

excellent question! this family and their sharp-toothed men will be the death of ... well, several community members of Collinsport, i suppose.

to start — Barnabas gets out of the box slightly differently than in canon, which colors his relationship to Roger and the rest of the household. Roger kills Willie after his attempted assault on Carolyn and Vicki (who is, by that point, his wife); Willie's mysterious disappearance and Roger's suspected involvement makes Jason that much more panicked, desperate, and correspondingly aggressive. Liz goes searching for the lost family jewels in a last-ditch attempt to buy Jason off, and, inadvertently, lets their ancient family sin out of the tomb.

ergo she's made Barnabas' thrall instead of Willie, but this goes unnoticed for a while — even though her brother would, in theory, recognize the signs, and his suspicions are raised, but she's already acting so much unlike herself with Jason around that he doesn't suspect anyone else of doing her harm. yet.

at the start, he and Barnabas get along very well, even before they discover their shared affliction: they're both relatively sophisticated, well-traveled, intelligent people, and for all that Roger decries Liz's emphasis on the Collins name, he leans towards familial connections instinctively (Roger hasn't got much in the way of friends outside of the house even in canon, and he's even more isolated as a vampire).

after he finds out Barnabas is also a vampire, things get a little more complicated, but overall, they're still friendly. Roger doesn't have much sympathy for Barnabas' relentless self-pity and decrying his doomed fate to live as a monster, because Roger on the whole enjoys his vampirism and has made a decent un-life for himself out of it (thanks in no small part to Vicki). but having someone like him around is a comfort in ways he wouldn't have expected, he's no longer solitary or uniquely monstrous out of the Collins family, he has someone else around through the night, and someone who understands the sufferings of bloodthirst and being shut out of the sun.

furthermore, Roger's very much interested in his family history and stories of the past, the building of Collinwood, Jeremiah's ships – and Barnabas was there. there's potential for some very interesting conversations about the past, and the arc of the Collins family history to the present, not to mention literature, travel, fashion, politics and the rest. Roger's his cousin's mirror in modernity in many ways, and that's something potentially interesting to explore: the world changes around them, but Collinses do not.

as an aside, they both have a funny sort of relationship to Burke. Barnabas hates him for his resemblance to Jeremiah and envies his friendship with Vicki and thinks he's crude, and Roger ... well. it's complicated. it's closer to antagonism than not, and Burke has tried to kill him once in this au, and Roger resents his flirting with Vicki, but then there's everything else with their past. so I don't think Barnabas' treatment of him would sit particularly well with Roger, he'd take the attitude of hey, only I can be a dick to Burke >:(

the definite fracture point is Barnabas imprinting on Vicki. Roger's already jealous and possessive by nature, and it's amplified by the supernatural nature of his relationship to Vicki (being closer, bodily and mentally; being necessary to each other; being, quite literally, sustenance) so he's already a little on edge when Barnabas starts paying attention to her, giving her presents, and appreciating the scenery — Barnabas doesn't, exactly, tend to have much in the way of moral inclination to leaving women alone when they have prior engagements, but it's fair to point out the irony of everything Roger was doing with his bloodbag governess when he was still very much a married man.

anyway: Roger finds foreign bite marks on his wife's neck, and he's understandably immensely upset by this. partially out of territorial sentiment, but he also knows Vicki, and he knows that she wouldn't have invited another vampire willingly — which means that she was forced, or hypnotized, or attacked in secret, and there's only the one potential suspect. this is already enough to lose his good will, but he might have been willing to let Barnabas go with a "hands off," had this discovery not lead to finding out what he'd also been doing to Liz. the combination of the two is unforgivable, and it's Barnabas' error to have made an enemy who is very personally aware of all his vampiric weaknesses, and Burke's already carved a stake.

[three-dee-ess]

I hope you’re okay and all is well!!

!!!!!!! this is super kind thank you

[scarlet--wiccan]

what do you imagine the maximoff's accent's to sound like? they're usually made to sound romanian which i like but assuming they grew up speaking romany would their english sound any different?

In this context, I'd suggest spelling it "Romani" with an "i".

I tend to read Wanda and Pietro's dialogue with mostly hard consonants, long vowels, and "i"s pronounced like "ee"s. Don't really know where I got that from. I can tell you, based on what research I have done, that I'm pretty sure "Wanda" and "Wundagore" should be pronounced with a "V" sound-- so that's "Von-dah," which has been used a couple times in comics. The Maximoffs don't usually get phonetic accents the way other characters do, which is probably for the best, but it is making hard to answer this question.

Usually, if Wanda's accent is addressed, it is by characters expressing confusion. Nobody can really place it correctly. Jean thinks she sounds Russian. Clint thinks she sounds Lithuanian. Those are two very different things. I can tell you from experience that my grandmother was the same way-- she had a lot of different linguistic influences, so her accent was unique and very hard to place when she spoke English. That's not a specifically Romani thing, it's just something that can happen when you've moved around a lot and learned languages through immersion, rather than formal education.

On the other hand, we know that Wanda and Pietro are both polyglots. I would believe at this point that they are able to speak flat, unaccented American English, but I do not choose to assume that, because it's boring.

Unfortunately, though, all of this is outside my scope of expertise. My family is not from that part of Europe, and the Calo dialect, in my experience, sounds pretty different from the ones you might hear in that region. Generally speaking, I do think most people or communities have regional accents that are influenced by the majority culture. So, yeah, it is a perfectly safe bet to say that Wanda and Pietro have "Transian" accents-- which would be very similar to Romanian or Bulgarian, as those are the real-world countries that Transia is analogous to.

Again, I'm not familiar enough with that area or those languages to distinguish a generic Romanian accent from anything else. Y'all know I'm a huge fan of Mihaela Dragan, and I believe she's from Bucharest, so her speaking voice in English might be a good place to start. I have her interview from Romanistan linked here.

[widevibratobitch]

girls when they actually wanna hang out with their dad and for him to think they're cool and not a total fucking disappointment

[waywardsalt]

gonna be a hater in tags real quick

[queenlua]

a Thing that sometimes happens, when new writers are playing with a long-running series:

* part 1 of canon introduces the heroes as being Particularly Valorous in some specific way

* a new canon writer comes in, and decides, actually, the hero acts exactly in opposition to that Valorous Impulse at some point.  or they become a parent/mentor/whatever and are shitty to their kid/mentee/whatever in a way that seems to contradict their previous good actions. or whatever

* fans get extremely upset because Our Hero Would Never

and yeah, sometimes this is plain sloppy/weird writing, and yeah, i get where the distress comes from (at the very least, it’s often tonally strange when you try to put it side-by-side with the original canon), but also... aren’t we all walking baskets of contradictions, kinda?  or, at least, an awful lot of us are?

idk if it’s my own weird life experience or what, but i can easily name, like, a half dozen people in my personal life who i admire hugely for some brave or noble thing(s) they’ve done—things that easily outmatch anything good i’ve ever done—but, also, have been really shitty? in ways that would seem to contradict entirely the impulse/reckoning behind the good things they did? and yet here they are, one single human person, with these weird contradictions that you can sort of psychoanalyze to try and understand the logic of, but in the end it’s just... it’s what you get.  maybe other people have people in their life who are more One Particular Way & thus it’s astonishing when that’s not how someone chooses to write a canon but idk, it always makes more sense to me

[that-vampire-eira]

Woah, I’m actually posting art for once, but it’s me attempting Octopath artstyles {I kinda gave up on the scene elements on the splash art one, and did not feel like trying to make a proper background splash for it (couldn’t find good brushes to even really do so), so I kinda just messed around with one of Throné’s ones to clip everything onto}

[knife-em0ji]

I’m taking this weekend off to catch up on all the estar guars shows I missed and like. Hey. Was anyone going to tell me that andor is the best Star wars show ever made