What is your #1 scientific mindfuck, Veeky Forums? The one that gives you an exestensial crisis or just makes your mind go fucky.
Mine would be >The fastest-spinning neutron star known is PSR J1748-2446ad, rotating at a rate of 716 times a second or 43,000 revolutions per minute, giving a linear speed at the surface on the order of 0.24 c (i.e. nearly a quarter the speed of light).
>0.24 c
Cooper Harris
Neutron stars in general. Cooler than black holes desu.
>A piece of matter from a neutron star would fall straight to the center of the Earth as if Earth were made up of a near vacuum.
Tyler Russell
And then it would pop back out again and oscillate for a bit.
Tyler Price
String theory in general.
Asher Martinez
This. Neutron Stars and Magnetars are mind boggling.
Robert Nguyen
What's so mindfucking about neutron stars? They're literally no weirder than atomic nuclei. Things like black holes, """dark energy""", false vacuum are way more mind boggling.
Ryder Bailey
Wait till you get up to speed with Polchinski. Now that's what i call mindfuck. But a beautiful one
Luis Taylor
>what's so special about about x lol >y and z are like so much cooler lmao
Noah Foster
>ywn know what's inside a black hole
Daniel Peterson
Yes, that's essentially what I wrote, why are you quoting it?
Charles Hernandez
That there are still monkeys left, even though we evolved from monkeys!
Jacob Bailey
Woah dude thats so amazing
Tyler Rivera
I mean they're pretty weird in the way that they're literally just a giant clump of nucleons with nothing else between them, in the way that they exist because electrons would rather fuse with a proton than be in the same place as another electron, in the way that they're so dense that when you look at one you see more than half of the surface due to gravitational lensing and in the way that they pick up so much energy from the initial collapse that they spin at relativistic speeds despite weighing more than the sun.
Those other things are cool too but it's not a zero sum game.
Grayson Bennett
>no wierder than atomic nuclei
id say the fact that they are basically atomic nuclei but bigger than mt everest makes them pretty wierd
Andrew Scott
To this day, i'm still amazed by the scale of our universe and some objects in it.
Dylan Sanders
No, it would immediately explode because it is no longer held together by gravity.
Dominic Lopez
What's pushing it apart?
Dylan Perez
What's hold it together?
Jace Russell
neutrons they don't like being squished like jews into a cattle car
Lucas Rivera
Nuclear forces, obviously. In a neutron star, matter is compressed by gravity. Multiple neutrons of different velocity all occupy the same point without touching each other, like how EM waves can occupy the same point in space without interfering with each other. Remove the gravity of the star and the regular forces take over. The matter goes from degenerate to regular, and blows itself apart in a shower of neutrons. This would cause a chain reaction of fission with molecules in the air, creating a huge nuclear explosion. This is assuming the neutron star matter just appeared out of nowhere on earth.
Kayden Barnes
Because it's some dumb shit you could say about anything
Brayden Hernandez
Galaxy Filaments
They show us that entropy works one a gargantuanally inhuman scale and that there's a good chance all of our known universe is merely a tiny portion of an even larger type of patterning of the universe on a scale so large we can't even see a fraction of a % of it.
Cameron Cook
Psychological arrow of time.
Brody Hughes
correction: "arrow of time"
Been a while, seems there are different terms to this now.
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Easton Jackson
this
Camden Martinez
We didn't evolve from monkeys. We evolved from something that had more than one evolutionary path. That creature was not human or monkey and neither of them became monkey or human until many more evolutionary changes.
Sebastian Lee
>if you travel at .99999c, time stops moving for you
Sebastian Rivera
Looks like reverse Florida at a 90 degree rotation
Grayson Thompson
>if you do something impossible, another impossible thing will happen
Wow man yeah lol xD this totally blew my mind too I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE XD
Brayden Rivera
Doesn't your mass increase as well?
Jaxon Butler
Kekekekekekekek Einsteins says if i were on a baem of light and i approached a clock i'd never see the hand move IFLS IFLS IFLS im such a nerd loll
Luis Nelson
More like your ass hahahaha
Jack Ortiz
>impossible >implying we could never get objects moving at respectable fractions of the speed of light
Still, moving just a few million meters a second is enough to stop time is a cool thought
Austin Hall
>>implying we could never get objects moving at respectable fractions of the speed of light >objects Yeah, no. But obviously we're already doing it in particle colliders.
Zachary Campbell
Is this the true power of The World? Accelerating to .999...*C?
Connor James
I don't see it
Luke Jenkins
I'd say the resolution limit is what's a mindfuck. We can't go any to any smaller measure of time, length, and mass. Essentially there is a minimum to everything. We have both ends of the spectrum covered with maxes and mins.
Gavin Scott
There are no fire extinguishers in that room on the right.
Easton Rivera
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Brayden Nelson
It cannot be unseen.
Gabriel Reyes
Another fucking ignorant dumbass who cant into evolution and a common ancestor.
Listen fuckface, you want mind blown? Take a direct route back through your paternal line and your direct ancestor was some sort of fucking fish Not enough to blow your mind? Then continue back and your direct ancestor was a single celled organism floating in the ancient ocean.
Jeremiah Collins
fuck this gay boy shit, the only mind fucks I need are mathematical ones. Halting problem anyone? Banach Tarski paradox anyone? Fuck yall niggas.
Alexander Walker
> Science Mindfucks The current status of the most successful scientific research program.
Elijah Torres
Banach Tarski """""""""""paradox"""""""""""' you say?
Jose Green
Looks like benis :DDDD
Dylan Wilson
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Matthew Hall
>Multiple neutrons of different velocity all occupy the same point without touching each other, like how EM waves can occupy the same point in space without interfering with each other Holy fuck
Ayden Perry
No, that's just the diet and lack of excercise
Jose Williams
Yeah man
Scientists say apes evolved over millions of years into humans. An ape can't live that long
Adam King
i know right! a real scientific mindfuck xD xD xD
Henry Cox
>haha lol if I have a thing made of infinitely many infinitely little things, I can make infinitely many things out of it because it is infinite infinitely infinite infiihihihihijijihihihijhue Really activates my almonds
Jackson Sullivan
You dont understand the paradox at all...
Alexander Gonzalez
what would life be like on earth if the earth rotated that fast?
Cameron Jenkins
there wouldn't be life
Josiah Hughes
Indeed, it is not really a paradox, but rather a clear-cut truth.
Bentley Ortiz
assume there was life somehow, or we colonize a planet moving that fast
don't think about the complications, just how things would look and feel
David Richardson
it would look and feel like you were dead
Thomas Carter
your genius is showing
Cameron Young
>don't think about the fact that you wouldn't exist long before you came anywhere near that thing, let alone land on it OK >just how things would look and feel disregarding the retarded gravity, the thing rotates 700 times a second, you wouldn't even know what the fuck is going on in the sky, and no, you wouldn't fly off
Kevin Rivera
It looks kind of like a penis. Is that the joke?
Jace Sanders
Assuming our eyes saw the same frequencies at roughly the same "framerate", the stars would smear together and would be blue shifted in the direction of rotation. There would be a big rainbow in the sky all the time, or have I read too much Niven?
Christopher Parker
>taking the bait this hard
Isaiah Mitchell
Nope, that would be you.
Leo Ortiz
forgot I was talking about landing on the fucking star in question nah, im saying a planet.
>disregarding the retarded gravity, the thing rotates 700 times a second, you wouldn't even know what the fuck is going on in the sky, and no, you wouldn't fly off
alright, there is somewhat of an answer.
shit, its just something to think about. People THINK about what it would be like to enter a black hole even though you would be dead. They still discuss the physics of what would happen to your body even though you would die. I came to the fucking conclusion of death instantly, but do you still not think of it beyond that point, or is it not worth the energy of your 280IQ level?
Jason Clark
Instantly means two different things when there are two different reference frames. What's probably inside a black hole is a bunch of fire and hot stuff, so yeah you'd probably die.
Grayson Lopez
Ok, what would it be like from both reference frames?
Wasn't asking about black holes. This is the types of responses I was looking for
Blake Bell
nice, haha
Elijah Martin
I would be happier if I made you realize how beautiful is to understand the mechanics of such object.
The first two sentences in your post wouldn't be there. You will never see a planet spinning that fast, because a neutron star is not an object that can form by collecting clumps of space dust. It's a core of a dead star that collapsed under its own weight, not quite enough to form a black hole, but hard enough to deform matter into a bizarre state unlike anything else we know. It's spinning that fast, because it has retained its original rotation speed of a star core which was thousands of miles across, now just several dozen miles wide. It's the densest form of matter in the universe, building blocks of atoms crushed together and held there by the sheer force of gravity.
Landon Parker
I legitimately laughed at this what is wrong with me?
Dylan Hill
Yes, I knew what a neutron star was. But yes, it is a very bizarre or "beautiful" object. Well explained though.
Do people on sci not like to just discuss thoughts on shit, hypotheticals even? At least one user thought about what light would look like spinning that fast. I guess that's as good as it gets.
Charles Peterson
This shit thread is more about how people envy and fear " The African Continent and it's Natives " than anything else. I has nothing to do with Science nor Math. Everything to do with Hate and envy from inferior genes.
Carter Hill
This graph spooked me the first time I saw it.
Bentley Cook
>discussion of neutron stars is actually about Africans
Not everything is about you, Tyrone.
Jason Sanders
fuking kek
Kayden Peterson
Charged microparticles (dust) suspended in a plasma will self-organize into clouds and crystals in the presence of a strong gravitational field. These systems are well-understood and well-modeled.
Take the exact same system and put it in microgravity (like on the space station) and a giant void appears in the middle of the plasma.
After two decades of research we still have no fucking idea why. Every single, reasonable, sensible explanation has turned out to be completely wrong.
Ethan Ward
epic...
Jaxon Flores
jeez that's cool as fuck. do you have the equation?
Hudson Moore
It's probably just Abs(x) Cos(x)
Kayden Watson
Explain?
>inb4 brainlet lol hahaha
Landon Taylor
Yes actually. It was canonized in Stone Ocean. Exactly why MiH was able to move during stopped time
Easton Moore
>What is your #1 scientific mindfuck, Veeky Forums? Right now, if you close your fist, you've just "caught" around 3 particles of dark matter. It's all around up be don't know what it is and don't even know how to detect it. Scientists have been searching for it for a while and we've narrowed down energies of where it could be by huge chinks and yet we still don't know if we'll ever find it.
Jeremiah Mitchell
[math]x\cos(\frac{1}{x}) [/math]
Thomas Bell
Yeah but you can't travel at .999c because that's 1c and you can't travel at the speed of light dummy
Asher Barnes
>Observation effects outcome in quantum mechanics >The universe literally is random
Ayden Barnes
>Doing a physical perturbation as measuring perturbates the system
wOw so spooky :^)
Jeremiah Bailey
(((JEWTRONS)))
Nolan Brown
Holy shit, so many stupid fucks who litteraly know NOTHING about science, this entire section is pure disgrace.
Ryan Martin
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Christopher Parker
My god
Andrew Nelson
welcome to Veeky Forums
Levi Fisher
The density. A neutron star the size of a matchbox weighs 300,000,000,000 tonnes