Hah!

But really, anyone who continues along the same line of research for long enough is going to necessarily cite themselves rather than just listing all of the previous results in each paper.

I use Mulvad, and seeding seems to work for me. Am I missing something?

All of the hydrogen was created at the initial cooling of the big bang. In this case what I mean by primordial, is that it was never part of a larger composite object like a star.

If that hydrogen was previously incorporated in a star, I think it’s fair to call it stardust. That’s very likely, since our solar system would have formed from a relatively dense cloud of the remnants of earlier stars, with just a smidge of primordial hydrogen mixed in.

Libreoffice is not my first choice for document preparation, but I use it only because I need to collaborate with people who use MS Office. I’ve had no problems that weren’t easy to fix.

Many here will be seeing this for the first time. For others it will be a fun reminder of something they haven’t seen for a long time. Still others will find it to be the same old tired shit they’re sick of.

When you see the same old tired shit on Lemmy (or any social media), just move on. There will be plenty that is new to you.

“People of color.”

Chill, Spock.

I think they were alluding to a different use of the word color.

Which two event are you talking about being simultaneous? The Sun going out and Earthers observing it? Those things will not be simultaneous in any reference frame, because they are “light-like” separated. (ie they lie on a 45 degree line in a Minkowski plot.)

The moon might be on the daylight side, so we wouldn’t necessarily observe that.

If you can see the moon (if it is “up” at night).

Science can never answer “why.” In your example, the question why is just moved, from “why does it fall?” to “why does mass distort space-time?” In both cases physics just describes what happens.

You mean, as opposed to lemma? I’ve never been confident that I understand the difference between those. :(

In physics we call some results “laws” and some “theories.” The difference has absolutely nothing to do with our certainty in the validity of the results.

Newton’s Laws of motion are called that because they can be written as concise mathematical equations, and allof the content is there. Einstein’s Theory of special relativity is just as valid, and even contains Newton’s Laws as a special case, but the content of the theory can’t be written in simple, concise equations. There are several equations included in special relativity, but they do not represent the entire content. For example, the most important statement of the theory cannot be written in equation form at all: “The measured speed of light in a vacuum will be the same for all observers in inertial reference frames, regardless of the relative speed of their reference frame.”

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution likewise cannot be written in concise statements (mathematical or otherwise), but our certainty in its validity is no less than in Newton’s Laws.

Another important subtlety: I was careful to say that we are certain of the validity. People who don’t know better are fond of saying that Newton’s Laws are wrong. This is a fallacy. Scientific laws and theories can only be valid or not, they can never be true.

Thank you! I knew they were all correct, and I knew why, but I didn’t have an authoritative source to point folks to.

Also, octopi. They’re all “correct” due to the multiple original languages’ grammar.

When they turn around to bug out, they’re actually pointed towards the whale.

Did your computer serve you ads?

Linux doesnt. oot

Did your computer send an archive of everything you’ve been up to back to the parent comoany?

Linux doesnt. oot

Did your computer cost hundreds of dollars in software alone?

Linux doesnt. oot

Did your computer’s OS get an upgrade, but you can’t usr it because your hardware is"old?"

Linux doesnt. oot

Does your OS just generally suck?

Linux doesn’t! Ooot! Ooot!

• I’m sorry, I just really enjoyed that typo ;-)

Hah! Very punny!