there’s no such thing as atoms
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there’s no such thing as atoms
atoms are a social construct
we have just agreed that fields of electron probability with certain properties represents a “thing”
an atom is meant to be indivisible; its name literally means “connot be cut”
it appears that as of the 1940s not cutting an atom is more of a gentlemanly agreement than an actual physical law
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we have just agreed that fields of electron probability with certain properties represents a “thing”
an atom is meant to be indivisible; its name literally means “connot be cut”
it appears that as of the 1940s not cutting an atom is more of a gentlemanly agreement than an actual physical law
an atom is a set of probabilities that “orbit” at resonant frequencies
there’s nothing there actually orbiting, there isn’t a lower level. it’s empty space containing only the concept of a resonant frequency, and a resonant frequency’s ability to bind with or repel other resonant frequencies.
it’s a vibration of nothing.
it’s as if we are nothing more than a chorus of billions of angels, and we emerge as matter out of the interference patterns in the ripples
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an atom is a set of probabilities that “orbit” at resonant frequencies
there’s nothing there actually orbiting, there isn’t a lower level. it’s empty space containing only the concept of a resonant frequency, and a resonant frequency’s ability to bind with or repel other resonant frequencies.
it’s a vibration of nothing.
it’s as if we are nothing more than a chorus of billions of angels, and we emerge as matter out of the interference patterns in the ripples
xray crystalography creates a 2d image of an interference pattern produced by xrays interacting with the molecular structure of a crystallised substance.
you need to be a crystal to shape the wavefront of the xray into a pattern by repeating the structure over and over- and then you can reconstruct what the structure is from the pattern in the image.
Holograms also work by recording interference patterns onto film.
you can reconstruct a whole lightfield by shining unfocused light through diffraction grating carefully designed and imprinted on a 2D slide.
if matter is just another kind of interference pattern, and there’s clear methodologies for transforming between the 3d molecular structure and the 2d interference pattern
maybe star trek transporters aren’t all that far fetched
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xray crystalography creates a 2d image of an interference pattern produced by xrays interacting with the molecular structure of a crystallised substance.
you need to be a crystal to shape the wavefront of the xray into a pattern by repeating the structure over and over- and then you can reconstruct what the structure is from the pattern in the image.
Holograms also work by recording interference patterns onto film.
you can reconstruct a whole lightfield by shining unfocused light through diffraction grating carefully designed and imprinted on a 2D slide.
if matter is just another kind of interference pattern, and there’s clear methodologies for transforming between the 3d molecular structure and the 2d interference pattern
maybe star trek transporters aren’t all that far fetched
a hologram is literally just microscopic black and transparent stripes printed on ordinary 2D film.
it becomes what appears to be a 3d image because of the way light interacts with those stripes when they are tiny enough to block, transmit or reflect only a fraction of the light wave when the stripes are at the same scale as the light wave itself; a stripe is able to block wavefronts at the wrong frequency, angle and polarity letting through by interference only the 3d lightfield
it’s literally creating a sensory reality out of nothing but mathematics and lightwaves. It’s like fucking witchcraft
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xray crystalography creates a 2d image of an interference pattern produced by xrays interacting with the molecular structure of a crystallised substance.
you need to be a crystal to shape the wavefront of the xray into a pattern by repeating the structure over and over- and then you can reconstruct what the structure is from the pattern in the image.
Holograms also work by recording interference patterns onto film.
you can reconstruct a whole lightfield by shining unfocused light through diffraction grating carefully designed and imprinted on a 2D slide.
if matter is just another kind of interference pattern, and there’s clear methodologies for transforming between the 3d molecular structure and the 2d interference pattern
maybe star trek transporters aren’t all that far fetched
@bri7 the principle isn't wrong. The energy is the problem.
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@bri7 the principle isn't wrong. The energy is the problem.
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@bri7 indeed, and it's as wonderful when you're going in one direction («we are only 0.02% efficient and get a LOT of energy from the mass conversion») as it is terrible in the other 8-D («how much energy do we need again to assemble a single atom of hydrogen?»)
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@bri7 indeed, and it's as wonderful when you're going in one direction («we are only 0.02% efficient and get a LOT of energy from the mass conversion») as it is terrible in the other 8-D («how much energy do we need again to assemble a single atom of hydrogen?»)
@oblomov seems to me like we simply need a matter/antimatter reaction that we contain with an absurdly strong magnetic field
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@oblomov seems to me like we simply need a matter/antimatter reaction that we contain with an absurdly strong magnetic field
@bri7 now if only there was an easy to keep an absurdly strong magnetic field around, we'd have solved all our problems.
(Too early in the morning to remember well, but wasn't that one of the biggest problems that basically made the Tokamak (sp?) infeasible in practice for fusion energy production, because keeping the magnetic field sucked up more energy that can be produced in the fusion process?)
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@bri7 now if only there was an easy to keep an absurdly strong magnetic field around, we'd have solved all our problems.
(Too early in the morning to remember well, but wasn't that one of the biggest problems that basically made the Tokamak (sp?) infeasible in practice for fusion energy production, because keeping the magnetic field sucked up more energy that can be produced in the fusion process?)
@oblomov they’re still working on it. the big news from the other day is the company behind truth.social bought the company working on it which.. uhm… is confusing to say the least
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@oblomov they’re still working on it. the big news from the other day is the company behind truth.social bought the company working on it which.. uhm… is confusing to say the least
@bri7 wait what?
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