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  • Theoretical physics has a problem where the most famous scientist ever was a theoretical physicist, so people have high expectations for it to churn out new mind-bending ideas to write pop sci articles about, but mainstream theoretical physics has come to some deeply unsatisfying answers, so only weirdo fringe theories like string theory get pop sci attention.

    The real thing is still the standard model, which is a catalog of sub-atomic particles that everything is made of, and their interactions.

    One of the main things they’re up to now is figuring out dark matter. There’s a dozen ways you can measure how much mass there is out there in space, and they all agree that there’s way more than we can account for with stars. We really don’t know wtf the other stuff is, and all the candidates have problems. More gravity measurements will probably help. The actual work-end of that is telescopes.


  • When they go after random fan projects, it’s almost always things named like “Zelda 4” or “Mario Odyssey 2” or some other title that Nintendo might hypothetically make. Often they bill themselves as “official” for some damn reason. Meanwhile, smwcentral has a billion hacks named like “Storks & Apes & Crocodiles” and Nintendo doesn’t give a shit.

    It’s pretty clearly them trying to defend their trademarks, and the unofficial rules are “don’t make it look official.” And yeah it sucks that Nintendo enforces this by sending a scary cease and desist letter instead of being like “hey change the name of that before we have to do something,” but fuck is it easy to avoid their ire.





  • I’d argue that what characterized the world wars was direct conflict between major industrial powers. They all have nukes now, so we wouldn’t get World War 3, we’d get Nuclear Armageddon 1.

    What we’ve got instead is conflicts between proxies and allies of major industrial powers - Cold War 2. And not only are we already there, it’s already scarier than the first one, since it’s not just proxy vs proxy, but nuclear powers vs proxies.