In many countries scientific-funding panels are totally corrupt anyway... Shit happens to shit.
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The question of what an electron really is, is still open as far as I know. Even the question of whether it's a "particle", is still open. In many or most theories the question of "what it is" is somewhat bypassed. In quantum field theory you describe electrons as a field (like the electromagnetic field), but all fields have the peculiar property that they show energy exchanges in very localized, point-like regions of space โ that's why you can think of them as particles sometimes. Take a look at Wald's book to get an idea.
There are even still open theories that try to describe electrons as mini charged black holes; not to speak about strings, and so on...
The usual misleading sensationalistic title. It isn't the "shape of the electron" at all. A less misleading โ but still not quite correct โ explanation is that they have determined the statistical distribution of electron quantum states in a material. Very roughly speaking, it tells us where we're more or less likely to find an electron in the material, and in what kind of state. Somewhat very distantly like a population density graph on a geographical map. Determining such a population density doesn't mean "revealing the shape of a person".
The paper can also be found on arXiv. What they determine is the so-called quantum geometric tensor. I find the paper's abstract also misleading:
The Quantum Geometric Tensor (QGT) is a central physical object...
but it's a statistical object more than a "physical" one.
It's a very neat and important study, and I don't understand the need to be so misleading about it :(
Cheers! for some reason my search didn't bring that up!
Unfortunately they cannot yet be resized on the fly, as instead some vertical-tab extensions allow you to do. But it's a step in the right direction!
Cheers! ๐ Unfortunately it's the same as on Sci-Hub, the "accepted version". It'll have to do.
Restored! Maybe worth a post update?
It's just part of a player's roleplay.
"Ethical and legal objections". The point in this case is that what's legal is unethical, and what's ethical is illegal. Analogous to other situations through history and countries, for example in the USA when it was illegal for black people to sit in certain parts of a bus, or in Germany when marriage with Jewish people was illegal.
As human beings, it's always important to make the ethical choice.
I'm actually a physics teacher ๐ In fact, as I write in the post, these questions are more about self-reflection. They bring to light some interesting points or issues about Newtonian mechanics and the way we teach it.
Please see my replies in the cross-post https://lemmy.ca/post/33867210
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2217942
In my desktop Firefox I use Cookie Autodelete to keep a whitelist of sites whose cookies won't be deleted. All other cookies are deleted as soon as all tabs for a particular site are closed.
Android's Firefox, from what I gather, only give you two choices: delete all cookies upon quitting (not tab closing), or save them across sessions.
Unfortunately the extension above does not work on Firefox Android, and I haven't found any other alternatives.
Do you know of any alternatives or other solutions, to get a behaviour similar to the desktop one? (And also: how come that extension is not supported on Firefox on Android?)
Cheers!
In my desktop Firefox I use Cookie Autodelete to keep a whitelist of sites whose cookies won't be deleted. All other cookies are deleted as soon as all tabs for a particular site are closed.
Android's Firefox, from what I gather, only give you two choices: delete all cookies upon quitting (not tab closing), or save them across sessions.
Unfortunately the extension above does not work on Firefox Android, and I haven't found any other alternatives.
Do you know of any alternatives or other solutions, to get a behaviour similar to the desktop one? (And also: how come that extension is not supported on Firefox on Android?)
Cheers!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2147796
We identify "life" with the capability of self-replication plus some other features. In other conditions, for instance on other planets, it could be possible for self-replication to happen in a way different from the RNA/DNA-based one.
I remember stumbling, years ago, on research and papers that studied this kind of possibility. But I'm having a hard time finding the old references or new ones.
Do you have interesting papers and research material to share about this? Thank you!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2147796
We identify "life" with the capability of self-replication plus some other features. In other conditions, for instance on other planets, it could be possible for self-replication to happen in a way different from the RNA/DNA-based one.
I remember stumbling, years ago, on research and papers that studied this kind of possibility. But I'm having a hard time finding the old references or new ones.
Do you have interesting papers and research material to share about this? Thank you!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2147796
We identify "life" with the capability of self-replication plus some other features. In other conditions, for instance on other planets, it could be possible for self-replication to happen in a way different from the RNA/DNA-based one.
I remember stumbling, years ago, on research and papers that studied this kind of possibility. But I'm having a hard time finding the old references or new ones.
Do you have interesting papers and research material to share about this? Thank you!
We identify "life" with the capability of self-replication plus some other features. In other conditions, for instance on other planets, it could be possible for self-replication to happen in a way different from the RNA/DNA-based one.
I remember stumbling, years ago, on research and papers that studied this kind of possibility. But I'm having a hard time finding the old references or new ones.
Do you have interesting papers and research material to share about this? Thank you!
First listed: Beeper at beeper.com - closed source ๐ค