Found on r/cremposting, a shitposting sub for Brandon Sanderson's books. Credit for the comment goes to, obviously, u/BloodyEyeGames on this post.
Found on r/cremposting, a shitposting sub for Brandon Sanderson's books. Credit for the comment goes to, obviously, u/BloodyEyeGames on this post.
“The photon just fails to interact! Duh.”Failed interactions are so funny to me. The idea that things just pass straight through each other is spooky.
Matter is mostly empty space.
I’m not talking about missing, I’m talking about photons passing straight through other particles like electrons that cannot absorb them due to incompatible wavelengths
They are all fields. The default is passing straight through. To me, the whole concept of interactions is spooky. It's a spooky action at a distance.
A distance of 0
0 is a distance. I think. Idk, I don’t have a PHD is physics, which is where I assume they tell you everything you learn in undergrad about how everything you learned in high school being wrong is wrong. Or something.
Electrons are mostly empty space. In fact, it's entirely possible that there is no "matter" everything is just points and fields.
Empty space is mostly matter.
There is not a point in the universe where the quantum field density of massive particles is zero.
On average it’s zero
On zero it’s only average
That depends on your POV
But empty space is far from empty!
That's why they are boo-sons.
For those curious: 3084 - Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
My first time being posted in a screenshot. I feel like a celebrity 💜
tips hat
Your first time that you know of.
Buckaroo Banzai agrees with this.
Wherever you go,
meatspace: one of those is wrong because words have definitions
techspace: unending error codes nobody checks or understands
retro myspace: it's tricky to rock a rhyme
A logically consistent universe that contains an unstoppable force cannot contain an immovable object, and vice versa.
If we interpret the force to be attached to some physical objects, both of these are the same thing depending on frame of reference frame. Whichever one your reference frame is following is the immovable object, and the other one is the unstoppable force.
It is not illogical for objects to pass through each other, because quantum-tunneling does exist in the real world. Any logic consistent with our reality must allow for physical objects to pass through each other.
Sure it can. They are just the same object.
I'm pretty sure this is why it's usually phrased as an irresistible force.
I've never heard "irresistible force" before, but I like that phrasing so much better
Kind of like that spear that can pierce through anything vs a shield that can block any attack
The shield will stop the attack but get pierced in the process, simple
This is why being precise with your definitions is important kids
Hey girl, are you an irresistible force? Cause I got an immovable object for you! (I have erectile dysfunction)
Never heard something's gotta give?
The arrow isn't being resisted either
You mean like your mom? Ayyy gotem
No I think that's the object so heavy God can't lift it
I swear on my soul I never heard the term until today
I'd argue that the phrase means they "collide" or "meet" which this answer I believe doesn't actually acknowledge. But is a cleverly fun answer anyway. As XKCD does.
Minutephysics Made this video twelve years ago.
IIRC minutephysics did it before XKCD did, and even he was quoting someone else's research.
I’ve always heard it framed as “irresistible force,” which I think better preserves the tension.
Resistance is futile.
They surrender
Quantum tunnelling happens.
I always think of the unstoppable force bouncing off and going the opposite direction, with an explosion on inpact
Ok, but what about an unstoppable object meets an immovable force? /s (or not if it is interesting, I guess. I'm not smart enough to figure out myself)
"unstoppable" and "immovable" are relative terms. To a bullet, a frying pan attached to a wooden plank is immovable, as the bullet cannot move the frying pan. Likewise, the bullet's force is unstoppable by the pan because it cannot stop the bullet's force. But when the bullet and the pan meet, the bullet goes through the pan.
Source: https://xkcd.com/3084/
Apparently, the Euler diagram of cremposters, xkcd readers, Factorio players, and maybe queer people is almost a circle.
Mind blown. The only way something can be an unstoppable force or an immovable object is if it has basically zero mass. 😂
Does the force even exist If it isnt resisted
Why prefer matter in the structure of the question? It could be equally validly asked as:
Then again... maybe that's dark matter. 😅
e:shpeelin'
i mean yes i guess you can ask that as well
It is resisted, just not by the immovable object
What a lame answer: "What happens if an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? It doesn't."
Your "lame" is my "elegant." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot