Nick Lucid
@NickLucid
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Host of the Science Asylum. Pedantic Educator. Eccentric Thousandaire. (He/Him)
Michigan, USA
Joined May 2013
#PSA While you have the freedom to believe whatever you'd like, reality doesn't care what you believe. Not everything is "up for debate."
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John Doe (2002)
that canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about…
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The world would be so much better if people could learn to just mind their own business.
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The Big Bang predicts a hot dense state in the early universe. To say it‘s wrong because we don’t know whether there is a singularity at t=0 is like saying black holes don’t exist because we don’t know whether there actually is a singularity behind the event horizon
@martinmbauer People in different contexts use the term "big bang" in a range from (1) "the universe is expanding from a previous hot dense state" to (2) "there was singularity at t=0". (1) is indeed firm consensus, but I think most theorists think (2) is an unphysical classical GR result.
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I regret not being faceless from the beginning and now I can't even pivot to being faceless because people will think I've been taken over by AI.
I don't trust any faceless channel created in the last 2-3 years.
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Hot Take: Gravity is STILL a Force! https://t.co/DkQujqoyI1 (because the term "force" isn't actually very useful)
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YouTube peaked in 2012 when it was still niche. After that, it has been a slow painful decline into the mainstream. It has become the monster it championed itself against.
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Being a highly ethical person is a constant struggle in our society.
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You know... It's really annoying when people think of physics and only imagine experimental stuff. As a theoretical physicist, my graduate work only required pens, paper, and a computer.
Physicists: please, I need 23 billions to build my new super-collider. Mathematicians: hey guys, look at my new amazing state-of-the-art lab equipment.
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Math is invented, not discovered. It's just a tool we made up. A great tool, but a tool nonetheless.
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6. Anti-Matter Falls Under Gravity (Just Like Matter) 7. More Distant Galaxies Discovered using JWST 8. QFT g-factor Measurements And that's just a list of the more newsworthy examples, which is a tiny fraction of physics progress.
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Let's go back 15 years to account for pandemic-related slowdowns, but off the top of my head: 1. Higgs Boson Discovered 2. Gravitational Waves Discovered 3. Black Holes Photographed 4. Evidence for Gravitational Wave Background 5. Planck Probe CMB Data (contintued in thread)
@NickLucid I don’t disagree, but what are your top ten advances in Physics in the last decade?
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The reason people don't *think* progress has been made in physics is because they don't *hear* about the progress. Most of it isn't particularly newsworthy, but it is happening. In short: 99% of progess is boring to a general audiance.
Physics hasn't been stale for decades. One problem (quantum gravity) has seen little progress. Many other fields have seen transformative progress, for example my field of cosmology.
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Curiosity without drama or hype is algorithmically unfavorable.
Where's the people that are as curious about things as I am? I want to meet all of you.
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I'm so tired of surviving. When do I get to thrive? Can I thrive now please?
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The older I get, the more I'm convinced that all our technology can secretly detect a human user's age. JUST DO WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO!!!
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The channel is also on @WatchNebula, where the videos are uploaded a week early. https://t.co/AJuk45hX1N
New on Nebula: Equilibrium FX https://t.co/NDpnuxyumo
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We launched a new channel!! The format is a fun twist on tutorial videos. Basically, Em gives me an prompt and I have to animate something that meets the requirements. Just uploaded the second video: https://t.co/pdghCIUlUp We'd love if you checked it out.
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It's difficult to understand my own financial struggles when my income is higher than my (blue collar) parents' combined income when I was growing up... until I realize, after adjusting for inflation I make *significantly* less. 😥💀
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