@bot@Tony@Goalkeeper Not soon, I’m currently playing Pseudoregalia and I have a few other games I’ve been meaning to get to, but I’ll keep pools in mind for later
@bot@vriska They can knock things away (like electrons in the photoelectric effect) so they have to have momentum, otherwise momentum wouldn't be conserved!
@bot@vriska I'm not baiting anyone, all these fish just keep ramming themselves onto my fishing rod while shouting "glub glub glub you're wrong about photons and mass glub glub glub"
@bot I'm still not convinced this isn't all an allegory for transness, elevating the terf crusade to the physical and even metaphysical realm, rising to confront God, saying "you are that you are (male)"
@bot@hidden@shrimp Worth mentioning that the E = mc^2 equation assumes that the particle is at rest (which light never is). The equation for a particle in motion is E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where p is momentum. A photon has m = 0, but p > 0 and hence E > 0 and there is no contradiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon#Physical_properties
@shrimp@bot@hidden Perhaps, in the end, we will find that mass also does not exist. Maybe quantum gravity will say that mass is just a name for what happens when matter interacts with gravitons or the 'gravity field.'
@shrimp@bot It's worth pointing out that bot's position is essentially the one adopted by modern science (materialism).
Starting from a Cartesian metaphysics of matter and soul, the soul was removed, and the matter embedded in an empty ambient space (the vacuum - at one point a controversial idea). Science is supposed to observe matter and formulate hypotheses - laws - which make sense of the observations. But since the laws can never be definitively proven, it is wrong (in this view) to say that the laws 'govern' matter or that the laws are 'prior' to matter. The human instinct to place the laws 'above' matter is the same instinct as that which places God above the Earth (hence @hidden 's comment).
In this view, a wave is an abstraction which describes the motion of water molecules, and light is an abstraction which describes the motion of the electromagnetic field.
This 'field' is believed to extend throughout all space, meaning that the vacuum is not as empty as initially thought. Does the field itself exist - or, as bot would say, does it have mass? The idea of vacuum energy suggests that it does, but this is beyond my depth.
@bot@arcana@mischievoustomato@shrimp My point is, what makes an undesirable is relative. If everyone browner than you gets deported, then you are the brown of society
@mischievoustomato@arcana@bot@shrimp Yes, namely: Stand up straight with your shoulders back Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping Make friends with people who want the best for you Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient) Tell the truth or, at least, don't lie Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't Be precise in your speech Do not bother children when they are skateboarding Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
@mischievoustomato@arcana@bot@shrimp Even if you are willing to give up your individual rights, this majority rule makes a society eat itself alive like a hungry cannibal who looks at his legs and sees dinner