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Yeah, that was just an example.

And to be fair, with regards to the standard model, we know the standard model is not fully correct and we still don't have anything better.

The article touches upon something that I think most people that learn about physics don't realize. The models physicists use to describe nature do NOT exist in reality. They are mere concepts that work well to describe natural phenomena.

My favourite example for this is the electron. Does an electron how we describe it in quantum mechanics exist in nature? The answer is no. The electron is a model construct we have made up that describes natural phenomena. Nothing more.

This is where non-experts that didn't study physics get confused when they read that an electron is a wave but also a particle. All of these concepts are just physical models that again do not exist in nature. But they describe different aspects of nature pretty well. And so we assign them a meaning beyond what the mathematical or physical model contains, a part of reality.

From this link [1] it looks like it's back to normal.

[1] https://www.netzfrequenzmessung.de/aktuelles.htm#2021_01

Just for fun, I checked for the German football league. I think more than 3/4 were professional football players before becoming coaches.

I disagree with this. The summer time is much, much better for my mental health. I am stuck working all day and the time of day when I want to and can enjoy daylight is after 5pm. Hence, the summer hours are much better.

I know a few people that work there. It's a normal tech company, like many others. There is nothing secretive about it.

It's just generally a surprise when the Republicans actually do their job.

The US is orders of magnitude more homogeneous than Europe, though.

Same as German. I wonder if actually English is just the exception and most other languages have this "rule"/trait.

Yeah, it's kind of silly really. Google scholar feeds off the arxiv.

I have talked to somebody working for this exact company before that was telling me about some of their project that they were working on. In addition to video images they also track people through their phones across stores to analyze shopping behaviour and fingerprint customers.

Didn't apple just demo the same thing in their event this week? Might not have to use the google app at all.

It's honestly the best browser out there...

Or charge a carbon fee for fat people?

Winter time is the worst...It should be summer time all year round.

But does it include itself?

Calling it a Village is not really correct. Wuppertal had 100's of thousands of inhabitants at that point.

This is misleading at best. A measurement has nothing to do with a conscious observer taking the measurement. An automated experiment that could note down the result of an experiment would note down the result without any conscious observer having to check in and the result would be the exact same.

It's a huge issue that observer is interpreted to be something like a person. An observation is a certain kind of interaction that causes the quantum state to collapse. It has nothing to do with consciousness.

These things sound good in isolation, but everybody else is on a different schedule from you, so it is isolating after a while.

Yeah, it showed in the way he explained things.

As a physicist, this is such a great explanation that's actually correct for a change. Entropy must be one of the if not the most misunderstood physical concept out there (along with Planck metrics like Planck energy or Planck length). Entropy is commonly used and written about by so many people that clearly lack the understanding of it that this blog post is a refreshing change.

Apple pay uses the Visa and Mastercard network though. It's on top of the V/MC cut. Apple only adds that you can use your card on the phone. You end up using your credit card anyways.

I am curious about 2 and 3. Since sounds is also just a pressure wave, those two should have been the same speed as well. I guess the sounds must have travelled through the ground as well.

Germans are actually happy that Trump wants to remove US troops.

It's unambiguous for everybody except Americans with their weird switching.

Germany does. Probably the majority of Europe too

There is a reason one learns about it in high school after all.

R_x, R_y and R_z are the basis to generate all rotations. Think of them as the equivalent of the basis vectors in 3d euclidian space: e_x = (1, 0, 0), e_y=(0, 1, 0) and e_z = (0, 0, 1)

Never heard about not being eligible for ESTA after having travelled to Iran. WTF? What kind of weird rule is that?