#physical phenomena

[lotuspeacock]

the fucking scratch marks on the tree??? this man is wearing gloves too???

#reboop #buddy daddies #a small detail #but my kazuki has conscious control of his mama bear response hc is growing #(yknow that phenomena where women can lift super heavy things and accomplish incredible physical feats when their baby is in danger) #either way this man is fucking insane

[physics-for-fishes]

How Rainbows Form pt. 2

To add to a previous post, this one explains how rainbows appear to us as half-circles!

Ok, so other than the dispersion of light in raindrops, another factor in the occurrence of rainbows is seeing them. We do not see every individual rainbow formed from each droplet because we’re too far away to see them. Instead, we see different individual colors from different raindrops based on their height and angle from us. 

A raindrop at a 42-degree angle from us relative to the sun would reflect red light to us and end up looking red. The other raindrops below it would look orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo in the angles between 40 and 42 degrees. Violet would be below the other colors at a 40-degree angle from us and the sun.

This would also explain why we see rainbows as an arc or half-circle. According to Wikipedia, “A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the center”.

The sun shines light on many points at once from its direction. For an observer to be able to see colors from a rainbow, the dispersed light reflected from the sun would have to reach them from an angle. This means that all the other raindrops reflecting colors to the observer would also have to reach their eyes at 40-42 degree angles, which also leads to all the points (in this case, raindrops showing color) being at similar distances away from the observer.

 To make this easier to understand, I tried to use a triangle ruler where the lines (base and hypotenuse) represented the path of the light from the sun to the observer’s eyes; the point of the triangle touching the ground would represent the observer.

 If the triangle was tilted so that the point on the bottom stayed in its place, it would go in the direction of an arc. If all the points on this arc were mapped out, it would form a half-circle or at least part of one. 

It would form a full circle if no ground or horizon were blocking the triangle ruler. This is the same for rainbows. Rainbows are full circles, but the lower half is usually blocked by the ground or horizon. This is also the reason why people on airplanes or in the sky can sometimes see rainbows as circles because the horizon does not block them.

Rainbows are also similar to mirages since they’re a result of the behavior of light, so unfortunately you can’t ride them or find any gold at the end. Additionally, the rainbow will move with you because only certain raindrops can form the rainbow you see depending on your position and location; Buttttt! this also means that everyone sees a different rainbow, which makes each rainbow as unique as the observers who look at one :) even though it may not look that way at first glance

I’m gonna stop writing about rainbows now but I hope this and the other post were good explanations for the formation of rainbows! 

#physics #science #stem #information #info post #infodump #rainbow #rambles #raindrops #sunlight #hyperfixation #natural phenomena #sciencenature #scientific illustration #optics #light #nature #phenomenon #science diagram #diagram #drawing #bad drawing #reflection #refraction #ramblings #perspective #education #edited photos

[corntort]

does Trace still make and lose bets in the dreamscape or does veruska console command his luck with them to get better

hrmmmm honestly probably he is a TIIIIINY bit less impulsive. but just because his whole sense of self has been kinda shaken up, he's generally much less talkative overall and so absorbed in his work he doesn't deem bets really worth his time anymore. if he had to he probably Would take a bet but it's just so far off his radar when he's holed up in his tiny mobile home all the time the opportunity doesn't really present itself

ALTHOUGH. i would think the dream counterparts of his coworkers might help him with equations/hypotheticals taken wildly out of contexts. he's stubborn and obstinate enough to brute force learning all the stuff he learned on sudra himself but if he hits a wall and can't move anywhere in his research he'll call one of them up.

and then the usual positing of "whoever figures this out first owes the other dinner." "Bet." happens

but again. very rare. and he doesn't trust anyone else with the specific details of his research, its all kept VERY VERY VAGUE when certain problems crop up to begin with.

#this may not make sense im starving and waiting for my foode to get here #rambles #ask #anonymous #trace av #him and hammond work a Little more together than he does with others but he's just so untrusting now even she's kept out of the loop #and she knows it. and she's Pissed about it. so she snoops #not that it matters or has any impact #she's just a dream version. so it won't really matter in the end #but the dreamscape has to be realistic so he doesn't understand #im still unraveling how athetos showed up in the dreamscape though. havent parsed my thoughts to any physics theories to it yet. but #if im being honest. those theories may not cut it this time around. ill think more about the ambiguous patternmind phenomena #because the answer prolly lies there. there's also that continuity note in av 1 that made me ponder. perhaps that pertains to patternminds? #i don't remember the specifics of the note at all #i gotta reread them. BUT i know it included the word 'euclid' in the first sentence #and i went haha like an scp

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wednesday 04/05/22

calm day today, copied my waves hl content notes onto my notebook as a way of review, and i also had my regular two hours of math today!! just doing sinusoidal waves, and my coffee tasted delicious <3

school starts again tomorrow and i’m prepared to hit the ground sprinting because… ib

♫i think i love you again - aaron taylor ♫

#study aesthetic #studyblr #studyspo #chemistry #stem #physics #women in stem #physicspo #waves hl #double slit interference #hl wave phenomena #what the fuck is a wave anyway #photons? #idk #disturbance in a medium b like #electric and magnetic fields oscillating #who came up with that definition #also thank u young for these experimental notes i am doing

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

The paranormal is super interesting to me. I think a lot of people see the bad side of it because they don’t treat entities with respect and sensationalize them. Rationally, if they are real dead people, then they should be treated as one would any other human; if they are spirits, then they are simply another species as intelligent as ourselves, and should also be treated with the utmost sensitivity, since their culture is likely different than our own due to their lack of physical bodies. Terms like “angel” and “demon” moralize these phenomena, and could possibly be taken as slurs by non-corporeal beings who understand the language these words are spoken in.

I dislike the term “ghost hunting” because the wording is much like the kind you’d use to refer to hunting a species of animal. I also dislike the concept of commercialized haunted locations. Imagine someone — who believes you are a horrifying monster — barging into your home with cameras, hoping to take pictures of you. Imagine someone opening up your house as a tourist attraction — a zoo — for the whole world because they think they can make money off of how creepy you are… Honestly, I don’t think the ghosts are the ones being creepy.

Yeah, I’d be strangling people and throwing shit across the room too if I had to deal with the clout-obsessed, phone-toting paparazzi that are living humans.

#paranormal discourse #is that even a tag #ghost rights #like ok I’m agnostic so I don’t necessarily believe every paranormal story I hear but I am inclined to believe spirits are real #one way or another #because of my own experiences and because so many people have their own experiences that cannot be explained #I believe there is an explanation for everything; and that “magic” is just phenomena unexplainable by *today’s* science #Tomorrow’s science may explain why we see some things; whether “tomorrow” is in five years or five centuries no one can know #We will get there eventually #Or maybe we won’t because human perception is so limited (we can’t see shrimp colors for instance) #But imagine what we could gain if the spiritual and physical worlds formed a bridge to collaborate with their knowledge #IF that spiritual world exists in the way we think it does — and we may be very wrong about that #But yeah… if ghosts are what we think they are… everything about the way we’ve been treating them is ABHORRENT #Putting *people* in *zoos* #nah #nonono #I’m all for communication and cultural exchange; but it should be performed professionally and ceremonially like a diplomatic meeting #My brain goes off the fucking rails at night istg h e l p #I’m right though

[protoindoeuropean]

the fact that we don't, deep down, know ourselves (don't know the details of why we do the things we do, can't point to something that would definitively account for all that we do and think) is not a flaw in our design or development or something, but evidence that there is no such thing as a fundamental, primary, basic, singular "self"

the common point about there being a certain unexplainable sense of self that we have, about us feeling like we have control over what we will do next, making choices etc. (also invoked in the hard problem of consciousness, i. e. how to get from the material brain to the sense of self we obviously experience), is of course pertinent up to a point, but not really presented accurately, imo, because it's not as if the experience we have is one of having a defined sense of who we are ... most of the time it's a mess that you're trying to fight your way out of — and which you are doomed to fail at, because there is nothing to say that the singular, primary "you" that you're looking for is even there. instead, the sense of self might as well be the result of a conglomeration of the various processes the brain performs

in describing the hard problem of consciousness, reference is made to this apparent unneccessity of the sense of self, as if having a feeling that you're "you" is some kind of an extravagance that the brain somehow affords instead of streamlining it all into just existing without all of these self-perception shenaningans. (and i would even understand this point if this sense of self were something well defined that you could point to.) but to me, that perspective seems rather presumptuous; why should we assume that a self-perceptionless existence is even possible when operating at the level of complexity that the brain operates at. you know that wittgensteinian (or whoever's) reversal — "people thought the sun orbits the earth because that's what it looks like from earth" "and what would it have looked like if the earth were orbiting the sun?"

#j #that's not even mentioning all the reasearch in how our choices are made before we're aware of them #and not even going into the fact that the physical world is fundamentally unfree (determined) #no matter whether you subscribe to the view that quantum phenomena make it ultimately random (=randomly unfree) #or if you prefer hidden variables or sth that would make it ultimately non-random (=non-randomly unfree) #usually i write these things out and then leave them in the drafts lmao but i'm feeling sexy tonight

[anima-virtuosa]

#thanks for following btw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #um #i will scream scream at you #AAAAAAAAAAAA #learning i actually exist to other people #i need you to look at ALL MY ART with your RealEyes rip it apart with your Claws Teeth etc #im actually real i am PawsReal my paws exist & feeling them tingly sparkling as you look over them (they are so sensitive i can actually f #feel you looking at my paws through the screen #through the reflected light-waves #unbelievably miniscule physical phenomena #but with my Paws Divine i feel it anyway) #its about to get so weird you have no idea

[todayisafridaynight]

Sorry for ruining your posting kfjdj I also didn't know such a person existed but I ended up finding the post where they defended him because it was the same one in which they said they hated Park cos she was abusive and manipulative to Haruka 😭😭 like. The dissonance between what they can't accept and what they CAN just cos they find a guy hot really gets me

OH NO YOU'RE GOOD THE TIMING WAS JUST REALLY FUNNY the halo effect and misogyny can hold grimy ugly hands unfortunately

oh damn i aint readin all that. i skimmed it just for you but if i read it any more i was gonna feel my eyebrows merge as i pinched them together perplexed

#snap chats #i always feel weird jumping straight to misogyny for hating a character or person but. but i have eyes. Sometimes #also edelgard was my favorite lord in 3H ok so i. i understand. #the halo effect is one of my favorite phenomena tho because of how true it is sorry i quote it every other post #like im not gonna lie i'm not the biggest park fan either but that's just cause she reminds me of my mom but even then shes less shitty #she's still compelling as a morally-grey character tho. also she's hot #ALSO WHAT PARK DOES ISN'T NEARLY AS BAD AS ODA??? #like. threatening to shut down a kid's orphanage so she pursues your dream and becomes an idol ? p shitty but like #compared to sex trafficking that led to a physical ailment- nonetheless everlasting mental scars- yeah idk #the scale is SURE hard to measure on that one golly gee i just don't know which is worse #also i wanna try to clear the other anon's name cause i haven't seen this person in my notifs #i generally keep track who visits my blog or i recognize frequent visitors #tho i did just get notif spam from two people but still i'd recognize a name like that #unless fam's lurkin... i dont mind lurkers tho but this do be a crazy take #man all this bonkers shit makin me kinda hungry but i dont wanna eat any more meat or rice that's all i got #actual scurvy moment #they got mango juice for two bucks next door.... hmmmm mango juice.....

[aturinfortheworse]

you know research is going great when you're googling complex scientific concepts and then adding "for kids" to the end in the hopes that there is some other idiot out there in the world who needed to understand the intricate details of radio astronomy

#i just want to understand colour #why is it this hard #(its bc colour is the intersection of a complex physics phenomenon and several complex biological phenomena) #currently trying to work out if you can tune your radio to green #and like the obvious answer is no #but if you're willing to bend your definitions... maybe?

[physics-for-fishes]

How Rainbows Form

So for the past few years, I’ve been disappointed with the lack of occurrence of rainbows in my area. Maybe it’s because the weather has been more extreme lately, resulting in more storms and heat waves here in the tropics than in previous years. (Perhaps it is my fault for going outside less, but I have my reasons)

So anyway, I decided to do some research on the formation of rainbows and it turns out that there are a lot of processes and science behind rainbows forming. So how are rainbows formed:

Conditions for Rainbows to Form

There are a few conditions that need to be met before rainbows can be seen:

The sun needs to be lower in the sky (which is in the early morning or late afternoon) and behind the observer

The source of water droplets (in this case, rain) should be in front of the viewer; the rainbow will show up there, opposite to the direction of the sun

Note that the shape of raindrops falling in the air is more circular than tear-shaped (my drawing isn’t good at showing this so sorry). For a small raindrop in space, the surface tension of water vs its internal pressure pushing outwards on all sides makes the water droplets spherical.

Air resistance drags less on falling raindrops than on solid surfaces, so in the air, we don’t get as much of a tail on the water droplets as we would normally get from water droplets on windows. It will go against them as they fall in the air, which can cause an elliptical/curved dome shape for bigger droplets, but it’s usually not enough to cause the popular teardrop shape. 

source: https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop

How rainbows are formed

Rainbows are formed from reflection and refraction occurring in many water droplets at once. This process starts when white light from the sun enters the raindrops. When waves reach the boundary between two media, some or all of the waves get reflected

However, in our case, the water droplet is not as rigid as mirrors or metal so only some of the light gets reflected. 

For the explanations below, I have drawn a model of a raindrop to help show the process of refraction and reflection in water droplets:

A) The rest of the light enters the water and refracts. White light is made of all colors in the color spectrum. All the different frequencies of white light, the colors, travel at different speeds in transparent materials like prisms (or in this case, the raindrop). So the colors refract differently and bend at different angles, with red bending the least and violet bending the most. This is how the white light gets dispersed into a rainbow  

B) The now dispersed light hits the other end of the raindrop, and reflects again, flipping the rainbow and diffracting the light even more. (Some of the light exits and never returns of course) 

C) The light leaves the water droplet as a spectrum of colors! It was dispersed even more since it experienced refraction and diffraction again from going through the boundary between water and air.

In the poorly made drawing, the angle between the sunlight and the exiting colors is 40-42 degrees, with red exiting at a 42-degree angle while violet exits at 40 degrees. These angles are the maximum exit angles for these colors, meaning the angle for red can’t go past 42, the angle for violet can’t go past 40 degrees, etc.). These angles also allow for the most intensity that the light can emit here.

#physics #science #scientific illustration #waves #stem #my drawings were painstakingly made in ibis paint btw #rambles #rainbow #water drops #raindrops #water #weather #pressure #light #optics #sciencenature #nature #hand drawn #drawing #bad drawing #infodump #ramblings #random #raving #sunrise #natural phenomena #phenomenon #sunset #information #sunshine

[jadeannbyrne]

Polarized Whispers from the Galactic Heart: Unveiling the Magnetic Mystique of Sagittarius A*

Image Staring into the cosmic abyss, today’s unveiling is nothing short of stellar—a polarized portrait of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the supermassive heart of our Milky Way. This isn’t merely a snapshot; it’s a revelation, 27,000 light years in the making.Deciphering this astronomical enigma took a blend of artistry and precision, with scientists teasing out the “twist” of light known as…

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#accretion disk #astrophysical research. #astrophysics #black hole #celestial phenomena #cosmic art #cosmic jet #Event Horizon Telescope #galactic center #general relativity #gravitational lensing #Jade Ann Byrne #magnetic fields #Nobel Prize physics #Paladin Jade #radio astronomy #Sagittarius A* #scientific discovery #space exploration #supermassive black hole

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thursday 12/05/22

i took these in class where we were doing thin film interference, it was super fun!! probably tbe best class in a while

♫ talk - omar apollo ♫

#study aesthetic #studyblr #chemistry #studyspo #stem #women in stem #physics #ibdp physics #physicspo #wave phenomena hl #topic 9 #thin film interference #actually the principle of why bubbles are colourful #i live for it #its reflection

[wayti-blog]

Electric Earthquakes

“In 2003, the Journal of Scientific Exploration published "Rocks that Crackle and Sparkle and Glow: Strange Pre-Earthquake Phenomena" by Friedemann T. Freund, PhD. It's a ground-breaking testament of strange phenomena that precede large earthquakes. 

It's a long and diverse list: bulging of the Earth's surface, changing well water levels, ground-hugging fog, low frequency electromagnetic emission, earthquake lights from ridges and mountain tops, magnetic field anomalies up to 0.5% of the Earth's dipole field, temperature anomalies by several degrees over wide areas as seen in satellite images, changes in the plasma density of the ionosphere, and strange animal behavior. 

To illustrate how such diverse phenomena can have a common physical cause, EU advocate and Thunderbolts contributor Matt Finn expands on a Wal Thornhill essay demystifying the how and why the electric force plays a leading role in Earthquakes.”

#earthquakes #volcanism #electric universe #sun #magnetic field #dipole field #ionosphere #atmosphere #temperature #charge #discharge #electromagnetism #plasma #geophysics #electricity #pre-earthquake phenomena #animals

[baaldigital]

APEC 9/30: UAP Propulsion, Physics & Materials

#APEC #UAP Propulsion #Physics #Materials #Scientific Conference #Advanced Propulsion #Unidentified Aerial Phenomena #Aerospace Technology #Research #Scientific Discussion #Youtube

[taketheringtolohac]

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#the thing is. so so so many people always say I miss you so much oh I miss talking to you but then they. never actually talk to you #and the thing is I KNOW I am a hypocrite like I know I am but also it’s like. I do know that ppl have all these ways of talking to other ppl #and gcs and stuff that I’m literally just not a part of. which is fine of course not my space but also it is like :// #and I should really reach out to friends more like I’ve been meaning to do that with quite a few friends but like. yeah. idk. #there’s a part of me that feels like ppl don’t actually like talking to me when I’m not physically there? bc I am just such a face to face #type of person. and the thing is a lot of ppl get used to anc comfortable with my presence and they notice I’m gone and will #passively or even actively miss me a lot of the time but after that it’s very much like. I’m sort of just a thought #which is like. maybe not fair to me or my friends. but also I am very aware of this phenomena surrounding me #it’s happened uhhh many many times and ppl have even told me it happens. I sort of just haunt ppls narratives with the absence of my presece #but I want to be. more there? if that makes sense. like I wish people would actually ask me things and tell me things. but you know. #I’m gonna start reaching out to friends again soon esp one’s that have graduated but I’m just. yeah. idk. it always just feels #like I’ve been forgotten in a lot of ways. like someone ppl love in general and who is well loved but is more of a representation #of smth rather than a person in itself. idk. I am in my own head rn but yeah. I miss people a lot. #roxy talks