• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    For me, the weirdest thing is that when a charged particle moves through a magnetic field, it experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion; this results in the particle tracing out a curved path through the field. Like … what the actual fuck? Why in hell would the universe be this way?

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      5 days ago

      That’s… huh…

      Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???

      (Unless you’re a physicist, in which case… fuck)

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        5 days ago

        I mean, imagine if friction worked like this. You’d push a heavy object … and it would move to the left (or maybe the right?) like it was on ice.

        FWIW I do have a Physics undergraduate degree. It doesn’t help in this case.

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          4 days ago

          Well, shit hahaha but yeah, that would be weird as hell. I bet it has something to do with how electrons get aligned, but… I don’t know much beyond electrons moving between their shells

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        5 days ago

        Yea I only have a bachelor’s in physics, can’t explain the black magic fuckery that is electromagnetism. Go find someone with a PhD, I bailed to be an engineer

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      5 days ago

      Why in hell would the universe be this way?

      Bcz it’s a simulation, or god is fucking with us. Who knows which one it is 🤷‍♀️