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What do you mean no advances in the last 70 years?! In the last decade scientists detected gravity waves and imaged an actual real black hole. Also they've been steadily chipping at quantum gravity, give it a couple decades they'll get there.
unless we cancel all the funding
The far end might sound smart to you if you've never taken physics classes, but...
Daily reminder that physicists contribute nothing to society /j
Gravity is what makes my feet hurt when I stand around too long without moving about.
No, it's pain receptors
Gravity is pain receptors. Got it.
I find it quite marvellous that the universe contains unexplainable stuff like this, actually.
Everything we know about all space and time is technically just entirely made up by us.
I mean for 57k a year it doesn't sound too bad tbh.
I could buy an apartment with that much ~
Apartments are rented, condos are bought.
With 57000¥?
i know what gravity is, but i dont believe in it
It is what make it risky to jump from the Burj Kalifa, at least on the last meter.
And yet, jumping from the Burj Khalifa at 1m off the ground is not very dangerous, so it's not the Burj Khalifa that's doing it
And even if you jump from higher up, it's the ground that does it, still not the Burj Khalifa.
It's not riky while you are falling from 800m, only at the end
Wouldn't the electromagnetic force be what makes jumping from the Burj Khalifa risky? It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.
I've been reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put this thing down.
Gravity is just a side effect of the fundamental laziness of all things. Causality moves slower near mass, so it's kind of relaxing to move towards it. That's why everyone does it.
PS: There is actually a SciShow Spacetime video about gravity being an emergent property instead of a fundamental force. And no I didn't get this from ChatGPT, I'm just that dumb when it comes to advanced physics haha.
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Gravity is caused by the fact that everything in the universe sucks.
And here I thought it was just your mom
So what you are saying is micro black holes everywhere, thats genius!
57k a year is a decent salary if you live in the UK.
A seasoned postdoc could expect to make 55K max. A professor a bit more.
That is not a decent salary, that is so low. I made almost that much just out of college in the U.S. Once I made it just over 10 years as EE, I was double that.
55k dollars in the US gets you a crappy apartment and a 7 year car loan.
Can confirm
you dont even need a phd to get that 55k salary, might as well not go to grad school.
57k€/year is a professional's salary in Italy.
Average is 32k€
With 57k€ you can afford to live comfortably, even get yourself a roomy flat, which is unusual for single individuals.
*Exceptions may apply, see Milan or other big cities
57k usd is a little less than 42k gbp
Which is roughly the pay for a staff scientist or lecturer
Postdocs are definitely not getting 55k in the UK except maybe if something like medicine is special? The range is like 36-45ish.
Mass go brrrr
While reading this I had a sudden flash of inspiration in which I saw clearly exactly how gravity works, but then when I started typing I forgot again. It's quite frustrating
Congratulations, here's your PhD
I’d wait got the demonstration.
Gravity is a fundamental force just like electromagnetism (supposedly)
Fundamental means it cannot be explained by being caused by something else.
But then they say gravity is an effect caused by spacetime curvature and electromagnetism is caused by quantum phenomena.
What is the cause for spacetime or quantummechanics? Idk but somehow they don't make it on the list of fundamental forces.
Classical science, for all the good it did and does, is an unironic joke and if aliens knew about it they’d be laughing at us.
Fundamental means it cannot be explained by being caused by something else.
Fundamental force means we expect a carrier particle to explain it (for gravity that’s the Graviton, although it hasn’t been detected yet).
electromagnetism is caused by quantum phenomena.
Not even remotely true.
What is the cause for spacetime or quantummechanics? Idk but somehow they don't make it on the list of fundamental forces.
Quantum mechanics is mostly that statistics is more complicated than we all thought . Seeking a cause for spacetime is interesting. It might be relevant to mention that there is a fundamental particle that imparts mass, which we call the Higgs Boson. I guess that could make mass and inertia something of a “fundamental force”.
But then they say gravity is an effect caused by spacetime curvature and electromagnetism is caused by quantum phenomena. What is the cause for spacetime or quantummechanics? Idk but somehow they don't make it on the list of fundamental forces.
I don't think we know enough about quantum mechanics to even make a guess, yet. I do know that the reason we wanted to find the Higgs Boson so much was because we thought it could help explain how things acquire mass, which could lead to figuring out antigravity. But then we found it and it wasn't doing what was originally thought. Or something.
What is the cause for spacetime or quantummechanics? Idk but somehow they don’t make it on the list of fundamental forces.
Well, they are not forces.