atomicthumbs

remote sensing practicioner

gregarious canid. avatar by ISANANIKA.


Website League address
@wolf@forest.stream
send me an email
atomicthumbs@wolf.observer
twitter but hopefully i only post photos there in the future
twitter.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter!! this one will let me tell you where i go
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter rss same thing
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs/rss
Website League (centralized federation social media project)
websiteleague.org/
Push Processing (Website League photography instance)
pushprocess.ing/
88x31 button embed code
<a href="https://wolf.observer/88x31"><img src="https://wolf.observer/images/wolf-88x31.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a>
forest.stream (general admission website league instance)
forest.stream/
bluesky (probably just for photos)
bsky.app/profile/wolf.observer
this will be a cohost museum someday
cohost.rip/

Once you learn enough physics you start to understand that basically nothing is fixed in place, stuff can be two completely different things simultaneously and behave accordingly, things on a small scale aren't made of a specific number of things and don't stay in place from moment to moment (and "moment" is an indescribably small amount of time), stuff just regularly becomes each other, there's all sorts of shit flying around that doesn't exist in a practical sense, objects are just a loose collection of phenomena, electrons in an atom are more of a generalized feeling than a point unless you look at them REALLY hard, everything is just weird little kinks in a thousand kinds of field, protons are made of an uncountably high number of quarks and antiquarks (but with three more quarks than antiquarks), shit just randomly pops into existence and vanishes for no reason all the time everywhere, space is foamy instead of smooth, and so on.

it's weird


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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

The way I always explained it as a TA to freshmen taking babby's first quantum course was that it's not that something (say, an electron) is two entirely different things simultaneously, but that it is simply the thing that it is, and we, due to prior experience with other sorts of things, attempt to reconcile that it has some properties in common with other things.