𝔰𝔠𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥

| they/her | elder millennial | Queer nerdy neurodivergent scientist |

[sciencexwitch]

[sciencexwitch]

Do I dislike myself or am I just made to feel ashamed of how I am?

[cuunos]

jellyfish lifecycles piss me off a little bit

[cuunos]

you don't have to do that. you can just not do that

[eddieintheocean]

:D they can do more :D (x)

[sciencexwitch]

I made a "real" blog

[sciencexwitch]

I got to see my favorite book

[time-consciousness-jjsimon]

Reflection: What Are We Really Measuring?

For most of human history, measuring time meant watching the sky.

Shadows moved across sundials. Water flowed through carefully shaped vessels. Pendulums swung back and forth.

Each generation created more precise clocks, but the basic assumption remained the same: clocks measure time.

Modern physics has complicated that idea.

Atomic clocks don’t measure something flowing past us. They measure extremely stable repeating patterns inside matter itself. Optical lattice clocks push that idea even further, counting oscillations of light and atoms with astonishing precision.

In other words, every clock is really measuring change.

A pendulum changes position. A crystal vibrates. An atom shifts between energy states.

If that’s true, then a deeper question emerges:

Is time something that exists independently…

Or is it something that emerges from patterns of change in the universe?

Humanity’s race to build ever more precise clocks may ultimately reveal something unexpected — that time is not simply a backdrop to reality, but a structure that arises from the relationships between events.

So here’s a thought worth sitting with:

If nothing in the universe changed — no motion, no interaction, no transformation — would time still exist?

Or does time only appear when something happens?

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[ghiblin]

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) When Marnie Was There (2014) Ocean Waves (1993)

[dogpuppy]

[cuddlexpunk]

"average allowance of sawdust/paper particles in food" factoid actualy just statistical error. average food has 0 tree products. Equivalent-disc georg, who lives in cave & eats paper towels and paper, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[sciencexwitch]

[sciencexwitch]

[wordx]

i think humans are meant to lay in bed with the love of their life all winter.

[oncce-againn]

My alone time is for everyone’s safety

[lackeyhenchman]

I don't know. I just don't know

[maniculum]

It took me a solid thirty seconds to realize that Phragmites was probably the genus name of the plants in the picture and not, like, an ancient Greek warrior waiting in the marshes to attack.

[anodymalion]

[the-big-mood]

[sciencexwitch]

Epstein files made me feel so icky I deleted my OF

[areus-in-a-little-cave]