Thread 717393471

>A gluon (/ˈɡluːɒn/ GLOO-on) is a type of massless elementary particle that mediates the strong interaction between quarks, acting as the exchange particle for the interaction. Gluons are massless vector bosons, thereby having a spin of 1.[7] Through the strong interaction, gluons bind quarks into groups according to quantum chromodynamics (QCD), forming hadrons such as protons and neutrons.
So how does this thing work then?

>>717393471 (OP)
it's a hadron particle beam

>>717393471 (OP)
they lied, it’s actually a high pressure, 1-molecule diameter water hose

>>717393471 (OP)
My headcannon is it shoots quark-gluon plasma, which is about as hot as .0000000001 seconds into the Big Bang. It would insta-vaporize anything that comes in contact with the stream.

>>717393775
Your mom gave me a hadron

>>717393471 (OP)
it gluons

>>717394756
I still don't get why this happens

>>717395172
we are gods

>>717393471 (OP)
It could shoot glueballs.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueball
>>717395172
It doesn't. It's a retarded meme.

Real fans call it the Egon gun.

>>717395172
quantum mechanics are fake
particles are waves, and consequently when you attempt to view them you can only see their endpoints

>>717395172
no one else does, physics literally hit a hard wall when we found out about quantum mechanics. there's been zero progress since like the 50s

that's a cpu cooler you fucking retard

>>717395172
basic QM
the quantum state contains all the information about a particle
the quantum state of a particle can be described relative to different coordinate systems
turns out that different types of measurements (e.g. position, momentum) correspond to different coordinate systems
moreover, when you make a particular type measurement, the quantum state suddenly ends up becoming aligned with one of the related coordinate system's axes in a probabilistic way determined by how much the state was aligned along the different axes of the related coordinate system
if you measure the same particle again immediately afterwards, it is always in the state you just previously measured

for the double slit experiment, the difference is where the position measurement is made. if you make it at the slits, then the state collapses to the position of one of the slits, and then the particle continues on its way
if you measure at the screen, the general quantum state is a mix between the slits, and you get the double slit interference pattern (kind of like a water wave impinging on two holes in a wave break)

the act of measurement, truth be told, is the mysterious part
otherwise the math is actually pretty straight forward

>>717395959
every single semiconductor device you rely on to propagate your retarded little opinions was designed using material science guided by the understanding of quantum mechanics
band theory, which enables semiconductor devices, is a basic bitch consequence of QM applied to periodic potential wells aka crystals
fuck you

>>717395959
Not really, dumb nigger. It's true many low hanging fruit were already picked by 1950, but there has been all kinds of progress. Did you hear that shit on xitter or youtube or something? Have you ever studied physics at a graduate level?

>>717396746
>but there has been all kinds of progress
such as?

>>717396806
semiconductors
lasers
microwave circuits
to name a few that you use every day and have transformed the world

>>717396806
ask @grok for a quick QRD

>>717397203
fuck you
t. physicist + cs + ee professional

>>717394756
never understood how or why this experiment acquired this mysticism about how conscious observation changes the experiment when it's literally just that the particles are so small that any and all means of measuring their path directly must necessarily change that path

>>717397284
Why? Are you asshurt that I told some larping retard to slurp some llm slop?

>>717397339
i just personally hate that the very first thing anyone does anymore when faced with something unknown is go "CHAT", or now "GROK", because these fucking things can't reason and neither can the people that use them

>>717397461
I was being sarcastic. But not really, because anon is a retard and deserves LLM slop.

Postan fun HL1 mods:
Half-Life: FIELD INTENSITY
Half-Life: THE INFECTED
Clean Half-Life
Half-Life: ZOMBIE EDITION
Half-Life: AZURE SHEEP
Half Life Sum
Half-Life: FOCAL POINT
Military Duty
Half-Life: RESIDUAL LIFE
Half-Life: SWEET
Half-Life: Life's End
Half-Life: VISITORS
Half-Life: HOPELESSNESS
Half-Life: HOPELESSNESS 2 - THE AFTER LIFE
Half-Life: BLACK GUARD
Half-Life: BLACK MESA SIDELINE
Half-Life: FIGHT FOR LIFE
Half-Life: HALF SECRET
Half Life: Sideline
Half-Life: RESIDUAL POINT
Half-Life: OPERATION NOVA
Half-Life: Induction
Half-Life: REPORT ONE OPERATION ALIVE
Half-Life: DELTA
Half-Life: HELP WANTED
Half-Life: URIEL
Half-Life: CATHARSIS
Half-Life: SHIFT-TWO
Half-Life: THE WORLD MACHINE
Half-Life: SENSES IN DECAY
Half-Life: ECHOES
Half-Life: POINT OF VIEW
Half-Life: BRAVE BRAIN
Half-Life: UPLINKED
Half-Life: CASE CLOSED
Half-Life: XEN WARRIOR
Half-Life: EVACUATION POINT
Half-Life: SIGNAL LOST
Half-Life: Opposing Force: UNDER THE BLACK MOON
Half-Life: Opposing Force: A SOLDIER’S TALE

>>717397317
>when it's literally just that the particles are so small
hopefully bait

>>717393471 (OP)
It's just the Quake lightning gun with a new skin.

>>717394108
How do you stop the stream from just cutting though walls, floors, ceilings, gas lines, crates of Dragonforce CDs, the center of the earth, etc.? Seems like a really silly thing to invent even for Black Mesa.

>>717394173
My mom isn't a particle physicist so no she didn't

>>717396806
Quantum chromodynamics, electroweak unification, the Standard Model consolidation, Higgs boson discovery (2012, remember that?), massive refinement and application of quantum field theory, quantum information science, quantum error correction (vital for quantum computing), decoherence theory, experiments closing Bell inequality loopholes, and the entire field of condensed matter physics where topological insulators, superconductors, and anyon braiding live.

Not to mention breakthroughs in quantum optics and cavity QED that enable stuff like single-photon sources and entangled photon pairs-things that were science fiction-tier 70 years ago.

But sure, “no progress,” go off, king.

>>717397176
none of those rely on quantum mechanics discovered after the 50s
you're a retarded 14yo who doesn't understand physics vs engineering

>>717397461
if you were a "computer science professional" you'd know that LLMs do in fact reason

>>717398042
Yeah, for a sufficiently fake and gay definition of "reason".

>>717397786
>How do you stop the stream from just cutting though
Through the fire and the flames we carry on.

>>717397786
Well clearly you put it through a big tube and put
>LASER
>Caution
>LASER
>Caution
>LASER
>Caution
on it.

>>717397786
it rapidly cools

>>717398093
surely you were not just repeating the layman retard opinion of random internet children that LLMs are "autocomplete"

surely you're not a leftoid 14yo pretending to be an expert in topics you know nothing about

>>717393471 (OP)
BUSTIN MAKES ME FEEL GOOD

>>717397786
You don't code destructible environments.

>>717395172
The more a fundamental or abstract a thing is, the less science, with its purely empirical methods, is able to describe it.

At that level things are less governed by forces of energy and matter and more by forces of will, intellect, and soul.

>>717398337
A predictably glib and butthurt response.

>>717398629
you can predict anything except how not to get bullied in school :(
it's ok little guy

>>717398621
a physicist says "shut up and calculate" when it comes to evaluating a theory
and QM has not only been shown to agree with observation, it is also explanatory, predictive, simple, and consistent with prior knowledge
all hallmarks of a highly successful scientific theory

>>717398185
>black mesa answer
>>717398218
>aperture answer
>>717398534
>vortessence answer

>>717398791
Okay?

>>717398959
will and soul aren't useful physical concepts for understanding the natural world

>most fun weapon ever
>no other game ever copied its mechanics
why??????????

>>717399072
by far my favorite gun in hl
i hated that it was relegated to a mounted weapon in hl2, but at least it made it in

>>717397786
>Dragonforce CDs
They would stop it.

>>717395172
The actual answer in layman's terms is that looking at something so minutely is really fucking hard to do, and that "looking" is an involved process that actually interacts with the subject. Therefore, the outcome is changed weather you look or don't.

Think of it like needing to shine a flashlight in order to see. But that flashlight affects the environment enough to make a change. At ordinary scales this doesn't really change anything, but on the quantum level, it makes a hell of a difference.

>>717393471 (OP)
Didn't you read? It fucks with the strong force, which holds atoms together. The atoms break apart, and so does anything made of them.

>>717397508
which ones are the most fun? i played azure sheep a long time ago and it was meh

>>717401117
Field Intensity is probably the best and most well made.
Point of view and Zombie are fun just because you play as aliens.

>>717401117
Echoes and Field Intensity are fun.

>>717393471 (OP)
Valve was too lazy to make a new gun so they take the ghostbuster gun, reusing Quake lightning gun code without the haha funny underwater self destruction, and call it a day.

>>717397915
what relevance does this mumbo jumbo have in one's daily life?

>>717395172
It's actually incredibly simple, "observe" doesn't mean look with your eyes, it means shoot a photon at the electron to measure its position and thereby identify which slit it goes through. There is still magic though: Why is a wave function the representation of an electron's position anyway? Why does the uncertainty principle exist? Why can an object have wave and particle properties? These are questions physics hasn't been able to answer. The best you're going to get is something like "well why can't it be that way?"

>>717393471 (OP)
It dougs