So… we’re about due? Sort of like that gigantic volcano out west somewhere?
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Is that like the coin toss, where each time the odds are still 50-50?
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This should really be a sign on the wall, like at a factory where they keep track of how many days since the last workplace injury…
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“Number of days since the last universal state transition… zero? Wait, that can’t be corr…”
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Hell of a great job sneaking up on us, universe!
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Catastrophic change, didn’t that already happen?
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what
the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and
be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
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That seems to be common sense, when you think about it. As expected, I scored very low in the D factor.
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Fucking downstairs neighbors.
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Neutrinos, to the extent they’re famous, are famous for not wanting to interact with anything. They interact with regular matter so rarely that it’s estimated you’d need about a light-year of lead to completely block a bright source of them. Every one of us has tens of trillions of neutrinos passing through us every second, but fewer than five of them actually interact with the matter in our bodies in our entire lifetimes.
I’ve never seen this analogy/assessment of just how much neutrinos ignore matter. Kinda fascinating. This also blew my mind:
For context, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, accelerates protons to an energy of 7 Tera-electronVolts (TeV). The neutrino that was detected had an energy of at least 60 Peta-electronVolts, possibly hitting 230 PeV. That also blew away the previous records, which were in the neighborhood of 10 PeV.
The universe is weird, powerful and a bit scary, but also fascinating.
(From Seafloor detector picks up record neutrino while under construction - Ars Technica)
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Hank Green finally makes a video on my fave science news story from last year
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There are stars exploding around you
And there is nothing, nothing you can do
—Kjartansson, “The Visitors”
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