#especially when regularization is involved

[neverlonesometraveler]

Is it too much to ask for funny videos of the type “best funny moments of ..” about quantum field theory?

[assmaster-6000]

i do find it very interesting that tetia is represented by the double horned hennin. two pointed hats in one. in the world of WHA, you can really only be on one of 3 sides separated by clear lines in the sand. if you're not an unknowing, you must be a pointed hat. and if you don't blindly follow their code, you must be a brimmed hat. but tetia's wants aren't necessarily pro-pointed hats nor pro-brimmed hats. she wants what she wants and it's an uncertain, but deeply humanitarian desire. so i think she's gonna be one of the figureheads in breaking away from this extremely constrained choice branch witch society sets out for everyone

[holyshit]

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

Your posts make my day so much better thank you for these posts.

Whats your fav cherik era??

(I had a breakdown ive got my med skl final tmrw but ur posts actually entertained me so much)

i'm glad my posts can make your day better !! talkin with everyone surely makes MY days better......

as for my fave cherik era, i still think it's the classic/92 era: the banging-my-archnemesis dynamic still tickles me the most i think....

[ikkaku-of-heart]

Light Keeper Verse Lore

Derry Forest is both home and prison to the Nameless Fear-Eater. It could once roam the island and the world unhindered, but It was shackled there with the Creator Turtle’s last breath when the eldritch spider murdered Him.

Thus It roams the woods, leeching off the fear and devouring the flesh of those foolish enough to wander into it. In the old days people (mostly children) would be led to the forest as sacrifices, but that has dwindled since Innsmouth renounced the Old Ways and rebranded itself as Joras. So the Nameless Fear-Eater has grown hungrier and hungrier, barely sustaining Itself on outsiders stupid enough to ignore the locals’ warnings and the occasional drunken fool.

But one day, a new sacrifice was finally brought. A little girl, led into the woods by her oldest brother and abandoned to the giant spider in hopes of erasing the curse her birth had brought on the family. For two days It watched her, following her lost wanderings and savoring her potent fear. It weaved subtle webs to make her even more afraid, marinating her flesh in terror so Its meal would be a true feast when It finally devoured her.

Except Its sadistic game was in fact Its downfall, as the Light Keeper had heard of his granddaughter’s disappearance and had shaken himself free of the despair-induced drunken stupor he’d been in for the past year. He charged into the forest, and just as the Nameless Fear-Eater had chosen to at last dine on its terrified prey, impaled a silver axe directly into Its clownlike face. The blessed metal caused It excruciating agony and crippled It, leaving It blind and too weak to feed anymore. Its spider legs twitched as black ichor trickled onto the forest floor, unable to even scream in pain as Tomasu carried Ikkaku out of Derry Forest and to the safety of the lighthouse.

That axe is still buried deep within the Nameless Fear-Eater’s twisted face. Every year, on the anniversary of their fight, Tomasu visits the forest to ensure the axe is still there, and if not, to put a new one in its place. It cannot die, cannot feed, cannot escape. The Light Keeper ensures that. Not for the safety of the island, but because no Old One fucks with Buranku Tomasu’s granddaughter. It will suffer until the old smuggler dies, and even then, Tomasu has put contingencies in place to ensure Its punishment continues long after.

[witchofinterest]

i’ve decided that in gotham, kay’s mom dated jeremiah for a bit

[nasa]

Tiny Wrinkles in Space-Time

This artist’s impression visualizes a variety of terrestrial planets.

There are several ways to find a planet, but most methods are best at discovering worlds that are gargantuan, ultra-close to their star, or both. Those toasty, star-hugging planets are fascinating, however astronomers want to find more familiar worlds too. One of the most mind-bending planet hunting methods, called microlensing, promises to reveal planets like those in our solar system thanks to tiny wrinkles in space-time.

Microlensing is a light-bending phenomenon that occurs because anything that has mass warps the fabric of space-time, sort of like the sag a bowling ball makes when set on a trampoline. The effect is extreme around the heftiest objects, like black holes and entire galaxies. But even stars and planets cause a detectable degree of warping.

This animation illustrates the concept of gravitational microlensing. When one star in the sky appears to pass nearly in front of another, the light rays of the background source star become bent due to the warped space-time around the foreground star. This star acts like a virtual magnifying glass, amplifying the brightness of the background source star. If the nearer star harbors a planetary system, then those planets can also act as lenses, each one producing a short deviation in the brightness of the source. When astronomers find planets this way, they can measure their mass and orbital distance from their host star.

Here’s how it works. Light travels in a straight line, but if space-time is bent — which happens near something massive, like a star — light follows the curve. Any time two stars align closely from our vantage point, light from the more distant star curves as it travels through the warped space-time around the nearer star.

If the alignment is especially close, the nearer star acts like a cosmic lens, focusing and amplifying light from the background star. Planets orbiting the foreground star may also modify the lensed light, acting as their own tiny magnifying glasses. Astronomers see the effect as a spike in the star’s brightness.

This animation illustrates how a star and orbiting planet can lens light from a farther star when they align from our vantage point.

Even for powerful telescopes, it’s extremely difficult to see these little surges of starlight. For one thing, they’re rare — they rely on chance alignments between two widely separated and unrelated stars drifting through space. And the signals often only last a few hours before disappearing forever, so there is some luck involved.

Telescopes on the ground also have to peer through Earth’s hazy atmosphere, which can make images too blurry to tell different stars apart. Put all that together, and it’s little surprise that less than 5% of known exoplanets have been found using this method so far.

A rogue planet drifts through the galaxy alone, untethered to a star.

But microlensing can reveal a wide variety of worlds, including ones too small or far from their host star for other methods to detect. While other techniques are biased toward bizarre planets, like lava worlds and hot Jupiters, microlensing is best suited to finding familiar ones — worlds in their star’s habitable zone and even farther out. 

That includes ice giants, like Uranus and Neptune in our solar system, and even rogue planets — worlds freely roaming the galaxy unbound to any stars.

Most microlensing exoplanets discovered so far were found by ground based observatories, though our retired Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes found a few too. Soon our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will begin surveying the cosmos, and its wide, sharp view will take us from dozens of microlensing planets to more than a thousand! Who knows how many Earth-like planets will be among them?

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[artigas]

i say this with a lot of love in my heart, but i think we need to cool it a bit with this narrative that mohan's story ending is indicative of some broader hatred of woman of color from the show itself. with regards to the showrunners or noah wyle himself, i think @userautumn's critique of the narrative being spun around supriya's departure and how it can read at times like a disingenuous engagement with issues of racism in hollywood is really well-put and worth reading. but i also want to talk about the show itself and how frustrating I find it that mohan not coming back next season is supposedly indicative that the show, the narrative itself, has no vested interest in women of color.

i think it's important to step back and remember that of the four new major characters introduced this season, three of them are women of color: Al-Hashimi, Emma, and Joy. Simply on the level of numbers, we've actually had a net increase when it comes to characters of color on this show; in fact, Joy, despite being a new character and med student, was involved with more of the patient storylines this season than some of the first-season characters all-together. Of the major female cast, only two are white women and Ayesha Harris, who plays Parker Ellis, has just been promoted to series regular and will have a more substantive role next season when Parker joins the day shift. I understand being disappointed that one's favorite character is leaving, I understand having critiques about how Mohan was written (of which i actually have many!), but I worry that some of us are throwing the baby jane doe out with the bathwater here when it comes to this narrative that mohan being written off means the show doesn't give a fuck about women of color. because, objectively, that just isn't true. the show isn't subtle about its focus on issues of race and diversity: patients talk out loud about being subject to anti-black medical racism, an old white nurse visibly rolls her eyes when two characters speak armenian near her, an ICE storyline is conveyed this season by the arrival of a latina patient. to suggest that none of this matters, really, or that the contributions of the Filipina, Black, Desi, and SWANA women on the cast don't really amount to much because Supriya is leaving is, I think, an impulse worth inspecting. And I think it's no small thing that fandom is making more noise about Mohan than they are about Parker, despite the fact that we have all been rightfully clamoring for a black woman doctor to step in after Heather/Tracy's absence and Ayesha is a visibly masc lesbian at that. Not in all cases, but some people are pushing a narrative that really privileges Supriya in such a way that it seems her absence alone negates the presence of every other woman of color on the cast/show. And I think we need to inspect why that is. I think we need to be really introspective about why Mohan alone seems to carry such disproportionate importance over other women characters of color on the show, how much of that is tied to her actual narrative and characterization versus the version of her that exists in fandom, to what ends she's being used by fandom that, say, other characters of color are not (especially the woc characters who don't lend themselves as easily to being shipped with white men), and if and why any of this makes her more important than Santos, or Garcia, or Parker, or Al-Hashimi.