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1. Protected Moomin (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2019 04:04:27 JST Protected Moomin

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   • Rev.Dr. Nikolai Kingsley
   @Nikolai_Kingsley @lain the us government prints money to fund the military.
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   • Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 21:48:15 JST Oneesan succubus

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     > Have you heard that particle physicists want a larger collider because there is supposedly something funny about the Higgs boson? They call it the “Hierarchy Problem,” that there are 15 orders of magnitude between the Planck mass, which determines the strength of gravity, and the mass of the Higgs boson.
     > What is problematic about this, you ask? Nothing. Why do particle physicists think it’s problematic? Because they have been told as students it’s problematic. So now they want $20 billion to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
     
     http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-problem-with-quantum-measurements.html
   • Protected Moomin (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2019 23:02:20 JST Protected Moomin

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     @lain scientists lying making me pissed
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   • バツ子（喉痛いよX_X (shmibs@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2019 03:46:15 JST バツ子（喉痛いよX_X

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     patronising blarg acting like no one else can see "the most basic stuff", like it's possible to go through the amount of mathematics necessary to work on these things and never stop to question the basics, like people see the 80 years of just QFT, and how much it's iteratively changed, and it never occurs to them that that process is likely to continue
     
     plenty of people spend their lives on theory, but things have sort of stalled. what *has* changed in the last couple of decades is the development of precision measurements and computer-driven statistical analysis
     
     and particle accelerators aren't the only front for those measurements. there are also telescopes designed to watch for obscenely high-energy particles like the "omg" particle coming from who knows where, measuring how they interact with the atmosphere, and systems monitoring the ice caps to watch for hard-to-catch neutrinos or whatever. it is important, though, to get these kinds of high-energy interactions into a lab setting
     
     the "what does and doesn't act as a measurement" problem also has ridiculous amounts of money being thrown at it by processor manufacturers working on quantum computing applications, so putting time and money in there makes no sense
   • バツ子（喉痛いよX_X (shmibs@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2019 03:51:29 JST バツ子（喉痛いよX_X

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     @lain
     or i guess 90 years maybe, ┐('＿`;)┌
   • Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2019 05:20:30 JST Oneesan succubus

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     @moonman @Nikolai_Kingsley they should, they are making china pay for it by doing that