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2012-10-26 16:56:49     achin   any weider than gravity?
2012-10-26 16:56:54     agrif   less weird
2012-10-26 16:56:58     agrif   gravity is insane
2012-10-26 16:57:47     agrif   so did you know that electromagnetism is what pushes back on you when you push on a wall?
2012-10-26 16:57:56     achin   yes, i think i did
2012-10-26 16:58:12     achin   well, i could have said that, but don't really *know* what it means
2012-10-26 16:58:48     achin   but i think the notion is that, at the atomic level, there's not much that distinquishes us from everything else.  just the strength of the forces that hold atoms near each other.  or something
2012-10-26 16:59:10     achin   which, if that's an accurate way to view things, is fairly mind-blowing
2012-10-26 17:00:38     CounterPillow   I, for my part, like pooping.
2012-10-26 17:01:25     brownan CounterPillow
2012-10-26 17:01:31     brownan I totally got your chocolate
2012-10-26 17:01:35     CounterPillow   :O
2012-10-26 17:01:36     CounterPillow   :OOOO
2012-10-26 17:01:41     achin   yayay
2012-10-26 17:01:51     brownan openinng now
2012-10-26 17:02:13     ion     Ooh, physics talk.
2012-10-26 17:02:16     CounterPillow   Also notice the paper towel I stuffed in there so it doesn't shake around too much
2012-10-26 17:02:16     achin   has it melted or been eaten by mice during it's epicly long voyage?
2012-10-26 17:02:17     box-bot Definitely
2012-10-26 17:02:29     brownan seems okay
2012-10-26 17:02:35     achin   take a picture!
2012-10-26 17:02:36     CounterPillow   \o/
2012-10-26 17:02:42     CounterPillow   I hope I removed all the price tags :c
2012-10-26 17:02:42     achin   so we all can seeee
2012-10-26 17:02:46     ion     agrif: So… what did Feynman say?
2012-10-26 17:03:24     CounterPillow   "I didn't choose the thug life. The thug life chose me." -- Richard Feynman
2012-10-26 17:03:33     +aheadley       !fortune feynman
2012-10-26 17:03:34     EmceeOverviewer aheadley: command failed
2012-10-26 17:03:35     +aheadley       aww
2012-10-26 17:03:42     +aheadley       !fortune science
2012-10-26 17:03:43     EmceeOverviewer aheadley: Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers.          -- Tom Lehrer
2012-10-26 17:04:04     agrif   it's the same force
2012-10-26 17:04:04     agrif   it's just that in a magnet, everything is aligned just so, so that all atoms are working together
2012-10-26 17:04:04     agrif   so you feel it farther away than you do normally
2012-10-26 17:04:04     agrif   constructive interference
2012-10-26 17:04:04     agrif   in normal materials it's destructive
2012-10-26 17:04:04     agrif   so you have to get reaally really close to a single atom
2012-10-26 17:04:04     agrif   yeah, on the atomic level everything *looks* like magnetism
2012-10-26 17:04:05     agrif   there's no collisions
2012-10-26 17:04:06     agrif   like, the way we think of collisions normally  
2012-10-26 17:04:06     agrif   Feynman was asked why magnets are different, and he basically said "no, that's normal. we see it all the time, it's just the distances are too small so we think it's different"  
2012-10-26 17:04:07     agrif   and so he was asked for an anology, and he said he could use rubber bands or something, but that's a false analogy because rubber bands are springy precisely because of electromagnetism
2012-10-26 17:04:07     agrif   and he didn't want to get into a circular loop
2012-10-26 17:04:08     agrif   :o
2012-10-26 17:04:09     agrif   is it good?
2012-10-26 17:04:09     agrif   basically that EM is so fundamental you can't really explain it in terms of other things
2012-10-26 17:04:10     agrif   there's no underlying mechanism, not unless you want to get into electroweak and mediating particles
2012-10-26 17:04:11     agrif   which he mentioned then brushed aside because it was too technical
2012-10-26 17:04:13     achin   woahhhhhh
2012-10-26 17:04:19     CounterPillow   Floodkill imminent
2012-10-26 17:04:35     agrif   ?
2012-10-26 17:04:35     CounterPillow   wait
2012-10-26 17:04:36     achin   agrif is super laggy
2012-10-26 17:04:38     CounterPillow   did you... wow
2012-10-26 17:04:39     agrif   yeah
2012-10-26 17:04:40     CounterPillow   that was lag?
2012-10-26 17:04:43     achin   we got like 20 agrif messages all at once
2012-10-26 17:04:44     agrif   little bit
2012-10-26 17:04:57     CounterPillow   You just spit out all the lines since "it's the same force" at once
2012-10-26 17:05:27     achin   context is a little missing now
2012-10-26 17:05:41     brownan what is going on
2012-10-26 17:05:48     +aheadley       agrif is spamming us
2012-10-26 17:05:50     brownan http://i.imgur.com/qTYem.jpg
2012-10-26 17:05:53     +aheadley       with physics
2012-10-26 17:06:00     agrif   I'm on a super tenuous connection
2012-10-26 17:06:02     agrif   wow that really re-colors the conversation I was having with (apparently) myself