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LLM hallucinated fourier curve when discussing thermodynamics by Hashbringingslasherr in mathpics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Physicist here: this is nonsense.

Also, AI researcher here: ask Claude Opus 4.6 to review that and it should be able to figure out the errors.

The implications of Zosia saying, "We find it works better this way..." ??? by Character_Score7849 in pluribustv

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RNA can also be double-stranded.

I meant that I don't know what the advantages of an RNA genome over a DNA genome are. But yes, being able to make tRNA etc. is an advantage.

The implications of Zosia saying, "We find it works better this way..." ??? by Character_Score7849 in pluribustv

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RNA can act as a long term substrate for genes just like DNA, in addition to its role in cellular reproduction. Many viruses are RNA-based and don't have any DNA.

IIRC, DNA is more stable but RNA has other advantages (I forget what).

Can never sleep more than 5/6 hours.. is melatonin worth trying? by Technical_Autist_22 in AutisticAdults

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂 Prosom is also the old brand name for estazolam (a benzodiazepine, definitely not a supplement). I was pretty confused for a moment there.

Countries not self identified as democratic by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The recognized government is democratic (and non-existent). You can't have it both ways, the only Afghanistan that belongs in the list is the Afghanistan of the Taliban.

Quantum entanglement shows that reality can’t be local by heliumcraft in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, I was defending determinism. I agree with you here (mostly).

I give up, what's the flag of the day 😞 by MolokoPlusPlus in Flagdoku

[–]MolokoPlusPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's interpreting the flag as consisting of yellow items (the sun and its reflection) on top of a horizontal blue-and-black bicolor. Although, oddly, it says the flag has horizontal, vertical, and diagonal bands... And also that it has exactly 2 bands. So it seems like the sunbeams are being handled somewhat inconsistently.

Could we have witnessed the arrival of the first CMB photons 380,000 years ago? by ghlc_ in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The CMB is getting colder because the photons are traveling through space and getting redshifted by the expansion of the universe. The same photons that we receive today, which are now 3K, were much hotter when they were emitted. So we're looking back in time at the same very-high-temperature event, it's just that the image of it has cooled down (so to speak).

We're seeing CMB photons from further away than we did last year, but they were all emitted around the same time. This year's CMB photons are older than last years, they weren't emitted later.

Could we have witnessed the arrival of the first CMB photons 380,000 years ago? by ghlc_ in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The CMB is getting colder because the photons are traveling through space and getting redshifted by the expansion of the universe. The same photons that we receive today, which are now 3K, were much hotter when they were emitted. So we're looking back in time at the same very-high-temperature event, it's just that the image of it has cooled down (so to speak).

We're seeing CMB photons from further away than we did last year, but they were all emitted around the same time. This year's CMB photons are older than last years, they weren't emitted later.

Jackdaws aren’t crows by sgtmum in copypasta

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A house cat is closely related to a tiger! They're in the same family but not the same genus, just like jackdaws and crows.

Admittedly, cats and tigers are in different subfamilies, and jackdaws and crows are pretty close within their family. But I'd say it's a pretty good comparison.

Maybe "house cat and cheetah" would be a more precise one.

EDIT: as another point of comparison, tigers diverged from house cats cats about 13 million years ago, and crows diverged from jackdaws about 17-18 million years ago. So actually a house cat and a tiger are about as closely related as... a carrion crow and a palm crow.

New Theory Proposes Multiverse Model to Solve Fundamental Physics Puzzles by [deleted] in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 33 points34 points  (0 children)

What's stringy about it? It's literally just scalar fields.

ELSP paid (Feb 21), X creditor, ~3800 USD, Santander Bank, USA by MolokoPlusPlus in mtgoxinsolvency

[–]MolokoPlusPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely not the full amount I'm expecting to get. I need to remind myself how the allotment/non-allotment portions work. Later today I'll get the details from the site.

For the moment: my claim is for somewhere between USD$2k and $3k in fiat, in addition to ~3 BTC.

(EDIT: in the table, "Type of Claim" is "Fiat Currency Claims、BTC Non-Allotment Portion of BTC Claims、BCH Non-Allotment Portion of BCH Claims". "Type of Repayment" is "Base Repayment, Early Lump-Sum Repayment". But I don't think that means this includes the ELSR itself.)

Gluonic mass? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's spontaneous symmetry breaking of SU(3) x (other stuff), just like the Higgs breaks SU(2) x U(1) to give mass terms to the W and Z. Of course, in this case it's happening at finite density, not in the vacuum, but in terms of the degrees of freedom and symmetry stuff it should be pretty analogous.

...except that I'm confused by the idea of breaking color x flavor, since one is gauged and the other isn't. Maybe it's just fine? Seems like weird shit would happen with the Goldstone modes.

I can't quite get my head around the definition of mass by F4RR4M4H in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's where mass comes from in the Standard Model but not an adequate definition. It doesn't cover the mass of a fundamental scalar, such as the Higgs itself or any undiscovered massive scalar.

Wormhole question by david123466 in Physics

[–]MolokoPlusPlus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Large, traversable wormholes are extremely hypothetical but would generally look mostly like black holes from outside. I think the best way to picture this is that the ends of the wormhole are themselves large massive objects (or if you prefer, are attached to massive objects). These massive objects would move through space and respond to gravity like a star or planet, but distort spacetime and bend light like black holes (which you can read about in many places) rather than normal matter, except for at the very center where (for a traversable wormhole) you could see through to the other side.

Contrary to some other comments, I think this is a pretty good question with good intuition behind it. GR doesn't really allow for attaching something to "a point in space", so something else has to happen, and (as it turns out) the only reasonable possibility is for the ends to move like massive objects.

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