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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's why it's interesting that inverse square is in electrostatic and gravitational forces only. Weak and strong force don't follow inverse square. And we don't see the highly complex organization inside the nucleus that we see outside it (otherwise we'd have stable orbits inside the nucleus as well)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bertrand's theorem states that stable orbits are only possible for one single inverse distance relation (in classical mechanics): inverse square

If the law is not inverse square (or harmonic oscillator), there will be no long lasting orbits, no galaxy clusters, no galaxies, no star systems, no planet and moon pairs.

If the electrostatic force wasn't inverse square, electromagnetic force would look much different. No gauss law would be possible.

Inverse square relationship is really neat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wanted to update my family PC (technically, but I don't think anyone else apart from me used it). Windows XP licence was too expensive for me as a kid and I found a CD ROM in my library with a FOSS OS advertised on it.

Fast forward to now, and I have been using Linux almost exclusively for 15 years now (some Windows usage needed for work or gaming)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Evil mode converts emacs into an actually usable editor

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is called grammatical gender. The articles as redundant information are quite useful when there is noise around. Even if you catch parts of the article and the noun, you can eliminate a bunch of similar sounding words due to the partial information (eg in this thread about See being lake or sea based on gender)

This is found in several sibling languages of German and the evidence for it is quite strong for PIE (4.5k-2.5k BC). It could have started with just slight changes (noun inflections) to signify information for clarification or redundancy which then got formalized over time due to natural language development.

Even old English had grammatical gender, and the gender neutral ness is a recent development (as compared to evidence of grammatical gender). We have holdover words from Old English where we don't see the absurdity because of the loss of gender during the Middle English (probably due to incorporation of different dialects in cities like London and gender less appearing novel and thus cool to speak), eg: wife and woman have similar but differently gendered roots (wif (neuter) and wifmann))

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome!! Thanks a lot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regarding the colors, I don't think they are easy on the eyes for people with difficulties in differentiating them (different color blindness types).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

F1 will never be a sport which has giant upheavals. Even football in national and champion's league has stability despite FPP rules for longer than cost cap in F1

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