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Serious tangent, but the idea of physics failing amuses me. One night we had an Earthquake in an area that basically almost never has them. Gentle shaking. It w
by bitexploder 7y ago
Serious tangent, but the idea of physics failing amuses me. One night we had an Earthquake in an area that basically almost never has them. Gentle shaking. It woke me and my wife up. I remember looking out my window for some sign of nuclear weapons going off or something. Nothing. I blurted out “Earthquake” all in about 10 seconds of processing. Rolled over. Went back to sleep. My wife was anxious the rest of the night and could not sleep from “what if” scenarios. One of her concerns was “what if physics was broken”?!
- bobsil1 7y agoWhat if the moon’s too bright? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconstant_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconstant_Moon
- vidanay 7y agoDamn...I read that link as "Incontinent Moon"
- selimthegrim 7y agoWhat if it’s only there when someone looks? https://www.quora.com/Is-the-moon-there-when-nobody-looks-If-Bells-inequality-has-been-experimentally-violated-by-subatomic-particles-like-photons-why-is-it-not-violated-by-objects-like-the-moon https://www.quora.com/Is-the-moon-there-when-nobody-looks-If...
- touisteur 7y agoThat's kind of the plot of 'Ravages' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes) a French SF novel by Barjavel. Electricity suddenly stops working.
- Haga 7y agoSo neurons stop working?
- jerf 7y agoI've seen stories that address that by positing that it turns out that our intuitive understanding of ourselves as fundamentally "simple" entities is in fact correct, and the electricity our neurons used was just an epiphenomenon based on our local conditions. If you physically move your body into another location, suddenly those rules will work on you, and lo, you really will be running on the 4 humors, or whatever other theory is in play.
- sgt101 7y agoAlso Fade Out by Patrick Tilley https://www.patricktilley.co.uk/fadeout/index.php https://www.patricktilley.co.uk/fadeout/index.php
- mikorym 7y ago> One of her concerns was “what if physics was broken”?! I think this is the wish of very a many physicist as they drink their morning tea and contemplate the day.
- magduf 7y agoNo place on the planet is immune to earthquakes, it's just that they're much more common in some places than others (i.e., near fault lines). The continental plates are always under stress and can move at any time.