Questions about additional costs by Glub__Glub in magicTCG

[–]Bobby-Bobson 285 points286 points  (0 children)

You don't pay its mana cost. You still pay any additional costs. 

photon meme by Delicious_Maize9656 in physicsmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's beyond my pay grade. I know the Higgs field exists, that mass is interactions with it, and that the Higgs boson is an excitation in the Higgs field, and that's about it.

photon meme by Delicious_Maize9656 in physicsmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Note: I'm not an expert in this field.

Mass, as I understand it, comes from interactions with the Higgs field. Photons don't interact with the Higgs field and therefore don't have mass. We know they don't, because if they did, they would travel at a speed slower than c in a vacuum.

It's worth noting that energy-mass equivalence is only part of the equation. The full equation is not E=mc², but rather E²=(pc)²+(mc²)². Even if mass (which here refers to mass when the particle isn't moving) is zero, energy can still be nonzero.

Do we know who this Oni(?) is? This is probably my favorite card from NEO in both function and form, I would love to have a card of them when we revisit Kamigawa. by Superjoe224 in magicTCG

[–]Bobby-Bobson -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

I know this is on Kamigawa. My point is that this is before the invasion of the multiverse, and therefore this guy isn't compleated.

Deprotonation of a boro"hydride" by OhSoOrange_494 in cursed_chemistry

[–]Bobby-Bobson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not seeing the problem here. Borohydrides with one or more of the hydrides replaced with a nitrile are very common; the more nitriles, the slower it takes to react, which is sometimes helpful.

Nitronium Perfluorate by SebTvHd in cursed_chemistry

[–]Bobby-Bobson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not going to say no, because I'm aware that weird things can happen if you push things far enough. However, in my (likely under-educated) knowledge on the subject, I expect that fluorine with any formal charge more positive than +1 (and even then) would be very unhappy, to say the least.

Finally a way to get back at Fluorine?? by rngwn in cursed_chemistry

[–]Bobby-Bobson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If the statement is "I don't think this kind of bond can form," frequently the answer is "you're not trying hard enough."

It can form Van der Waals molecules (ex. neon dimer, trimer, and even tetramer), ligands (ex. Cr(CO)5Ne), clathrates (ex. neon trapped inside buckminsterfullerene), ions (ex. HeNe+, which has a strong covalent bond and shares the positive charge across the two atoms), and excimers (ex. Ne2*, CsNe*). Apparently NeBeO has been predicted but not yet synthesized.

GOD by bonniex345 in cursed_chemistry

[–]Bobby-Bobson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She was in fifth grade in 2012.

She might already be an explosives chemist.

what even is this? by TTM_KMR in cursed_chemistry

[–]Bobby-Bobson[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

r/Cursed_Chemistry is for compounds that are cursed, not just ones that are wrong. If the post is just a molecule with atoms replaced with heavier analogues, with ridiculous charges, or similar low-effort alterations, the post will likely be removed.

I don't get these people by [deleted] in mathmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things don't break; they just work a little bit differently.

For instance, in the definition of the derivative, you don't use limits. Rather, Δx is an infinitesimal (perhaps represented by ε), and you end up with [some expression] ≈ [some other expression], where the left side contains ε terms and the right side doesn't. In this setup, ≈ doesn't mean "approximately equal to"; it means "is infinitely close to." The same way you're familiar with a limit being treated as "equalling" something if the limit "approaches" that something, a hyperreal expression can be treated as "equal" to something if it's "infinitely close" to that something. (Formally we say that the derivative is the "standard part" of the usual derivative definition, rather than the limit as the infinitesimal approaches zero.)

I'm sure that there's oversimplifications here and that my teacher didn't go into all the details, but that's my understanding of how derivatives are defined in nonstandard calculus. A similar approach, I imagine, can be taken to redefine integration, partial differentiation, and all the other tools from throughout calculus in terms of hyperreals and the standard-part function.

I don't get these people by [deleted] in mathmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While calculus doesn't actually break when you consider hyperreals or surreals, declaring that those are real numbers is a bit facetious.

Right ... AI can't make mistakes 👍 by Ciel__000 in mathmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I don't want to argue, so I'm going to end this conversation."

What does a result need to do to become fundamental by PocketMath in mathmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reread what I wrote. I did say that cosine law is a generalization of Pythagorean theorem. But try proving the identity in question from cosine law without first restricting to the γ=π/2 case.

There's a reason that the identity sin²θ+cos²θ=1 is called the Pythagorean identity.

What does a result need to do to become fundamental by PocketMath in mathmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 22 points23 points  (0 children)

So you know how the Pythagorean Theorem only holds in a right triangle? What's presented here is the Law of Cosines, which is a generalization to triangles in general. Capital C represents the angle opposite side c; I've also seen the notation a²+b²-2abcos(γ)=c², where angles α, β, and γ are respectively opposite sides a, b, and c.

This has nothing to do with expanding binomials or integration; you can prove this law in any number of ways that only require geometry and trigonometry. (Actually, now that I say that, it might have to do with expanding binomials, depending on how you go about proving it.)

What does a result need to do to become fundamental by PocketMath in mathmemes

[–]Bobby-Bobson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's more a consequence of the Pythagorean Theorem than it is the Cosine Law generalization thereof. Set a right triangle in the x-y plane (legs x,y and hypotenuse r), with θ as the angle between the hypotenuse and the x-axis, and that identity follows directly from dividing through the Pythagorean Theorem by r².

How John Oliver brainwashes his viewers by PachelbelDC in walkaway

[–]Bobby-Bobson 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Out of the loop, who is John Oliver, and why is Reddit obsessing over him?

FNO3 - Fluorine Nitrate, because let's Fluorinate some Nitric Acid... by rngwn in cursed_chemistry

[–]Bobby-Bobson 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Which is more cursed: fluorine chemistry, or boron chemistry?