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[โ€“] treadful@lemmy.zip 45 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My favorite memes in this community are the ones about tiny specialties I'll never understand.

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 19 points 4 weeks ago

Humour is universal. โค๏ธ

[โ€“] multifariace@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

wait, can visible light waves at thousands times larger than atoms interact with subatomic particles?

Of course but with a huge wavelength, their frequency is very small. Small frequency means small energy so the effect of visible light is shadowed by other subatomic processes

[โ€“] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Chromodynamics uses colour to represent the three charges of the strong field, like + and - for the one charge of the electromagnetic field. It rarely interacts with actually visible light.

[โ€“] multifariace@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks you.

[โ€“] echolalia@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As a math major I'm concerned about those curly bois near mu/alpha in the background

[โ€“] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

The Feynman diagrams? I think those just represent terms in a statistical integral. It's a nice way of describing an otherwise horrendously arcane function.

[โ€“] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 weeks ago

But I like albelian groups, that's where I keep all my numbers.

[โ€“] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Seeing shi like this makes me wish i'd majored in physics lol

[โ€“] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

I just reference Feynman a lot. PBS Spacetime. That sort of thing. Stolen physics valor.

[โ€“] troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Everything is physics. so you did! Congrats

[โ€“] espurr@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

but physics is actually applied maths

[โ€“] troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Applied maths is just one of many ways to talk about physics

to be fair I did use physics a lot in clown school