🧵 Common misconceptions? Don't wanna anger the anons, are these actual ones?
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Feb 2025 10:54:01 UTC No. 16579309
I could easily, easily put my foot deep into my month here. So I'm doing some thinkin to see if I can remember the better, if perhaps right tho, wrong things......
Can other anons add to these? Is there a general for the lovers of the akshaully to have ready when sparring online?
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> Theory means a full body of science work that fully explains something and/or has loadsa evidence chock full behind >it. So should be string hypothesis etc
Theory just means explanation in broad sense. Theories can be obsolete, not even be in this world, and even just mean a Lagrangian to put in the action. It's not cut and dry among the working eggheads. Is this a mid wit one?
This I think came from the creationist- evolution silliness. The God botherers were like "Evolution - It's jus a theory innit".
And instead of explaining to these churchmen why modern synthesis/evolution/whatever is a good theory, the I fucking Love Science Crowd decided to uplift the word "theory" to up on high so that it can't be sniped at and is off limits. "Gravity and falling down is a theory u silly theist". It was the evolution "outreachers" who dropped the ball here imo 2bh
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>GPS nav needs Gen Relativity to work or it will be like 11 miles out.
Nah, as one's phone, car etc doesn't have an atomic clock and it doesn't need to keep time with the satellites. The satellites just need to be in sync with each other.
If it was this close, the fact the earth is not a sphere, has valleys, mountains etc,would mean these aspects would screw the measurement up too. Multiplying by constant is not enough to precisely correct for these microsecond coordinate differences. Luckily they don't need to. There's some further detail, but basically I think that's the gist. Correct me if wrong obv.
Anonymous at Sat, 8 Feb 2025 10:57:25 UTC No. 16579310
>>16579309
Treading lightly....
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>DID you know Alcohole w/d is deadly
Not a lie or misconception really, just sick of hearing this from pro drug redditors who seemed to believe this makes them sound informed. Also they seem to think sounding like a bible bashing puritan of the 19th century temperance movement is a superb pro-alldrugs llegalization argument.
Anyway, true DTs (severe w/d) is rare. Especially among healthy, younger, well fed, less kindled lush's. You kinda need to go at it like an absolute piss artist 24/7 or daily for years. Ofc it's best to be safer tho. And w/d can be halted with a taper or better yet, benzos.
You're unlikely to drop dead stopping a 6 pack a night after a 2 week long habit. "Alcohol is a poison" is also ill defined.
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>Length contraction is what you see as well as measure at high Lorenz factor.
Although you measure contraction along the line of motion, what you SEE is a kinda rotation due to light's finite speed. See Terrell Penrose rotation. Wasn't spotted for a while. And a sphere basically doesn't change shape and other effects due to the same cause.
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>Cocaine acts as a re uptake inhibitor for most effects
Above certain moderate doses, coke actually acts as a def releaser too - according to wikipedia. So it's more like re uptake inhibitor and then that + releaser by reversing DAT in a complicated way at high dose. NOTE: I don't know what affinities this mechanism has for DAT or what comparison to make so this like 1/2 a misconception maybe.
OK I'm scraping the barrel now. I was sure I had a gotcha.... nope just some rudimentary ones.