It was a mistake?
I was cleaning out the basement and found several boxes of antimatter. It balances - weâre good.
widely regarded as a bad move
âŚalthough, to be fair, thatâs mostly among people who havenât figured out that you need to bang the rocks together. At least, thatâs what some people say.
taping aluminum foil to the glass makes an easy and cheap, but permanent, blackout. an old trick the goths use.
I guess for temperature control make sure the shiny side is out.
I was trying to make a darkroom once by putting a poster I had mounted to foamcore over a window for a removable blackout, but the direct sunlight shone through until I covered the back with foil. so rigging something not-permanent isnât hard.
When I did the same thing, I was lucky enough to have âawningâ windows in the room. (Basically, casement windows, but the hinge is on the top edge, so they look like awnings when open.) Each had a fixed glass pane on the exterior side, with a clip-in interior pane that could be removed for cleaning. All I had to do was remove the screen (inside the room), unclip the inside pane, fit a piece of posterboard in behind the fixed pane, and put the interior pane back in. Instant blackout!
The authors were surprised to discover that not only are conspiracy theorists overconfident, they also donât realize their beliefs are on the fringe, massively overestimating by as much as a factor of four how much other people agree with them.
The results showed a marked association between subjectsâ tendency to be overconfident and belief in conspiracy theories. And while a majority of participants believed a conspiracyâs claims just 12 percent of the time, believers thought they were in the majority 93 percent of the time. This suggests that overconfidence is a primary driver of belief in conspiracies.
Itâs not that believers in conspiracy theories are massively overconfident; there is no data on that, because the studies didnât set out to quantify the degree of overconfidence, per Pennycook. Rather, âTheyâre overconfident, and they massively overestimate how much people agree with them,â he said.
I have every confidence that this study is clearly part of a conspiracy to discredit conspiracy theories.
I wonder if âarroganceâ is a better descriptor than âconfidence.â
Arrogance and ignorance is a dangerous combination.
And yet one actively encouraged, if not demanded, by the current cult in power.
âActually, itâs a funny thing; temperature is one of the physical quantities that humans have known for the longest timeâbut we donât measure temperature itself,â Nagler said. âWe measure something that temperature influences . For example, a mercury thermometer measures how temperature changes the volume of a blob of mercury.â
Iâd never thought of that⌠my mind went
I suppose thatâs true of weight, too. We donât measure weight or mass directly. We measure its effect on a spring or a fulcrum.
By calculating the distortions in the X-rayâs frequency after colliding with the gold particles, the team locked down the speed and temperature of the atoms.
No physicist me, but the collective average speed of the atoms in a sample is how we define temperature. Not sure why they felt they had to specify both?
