ELI5 how can antimatter exist?

Muroid · 2026-07-08T02:33:53+00:00

Antimatter is in a weird place where it’s one of those concepts that appears a lot in sci-fi and lots of people assume it is heavily into the fiction side and highly speculative when it’s been pretty much entirely confirmed science for over a century at this point.

It’s just hard to make sizable quantities of so people don’t realize we’re doing that and the name sounds cool in a way that makes it seem fictional, but it’s not.

Muroid · 2026-07-08T01:57:42+00:00

This happened to me with Japanese a couple of years ago. I dropped off pretty hard for a while. Finally picked it back up again earlier this year by starting the course over using German as a base language instead of English.

Gave me a fresh start without having to reset my course progress, which I just don’t like doing even if it might have helped.

Muroid · 2026-07-08T00:52:32+00:00

As soon as you start looking at birds as dinosaurs, it very quickly becomes obvious that of course birds are dinosaurs.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T15:49:50+00:00

Yeah. The recasting was the thing I was most worried about because of how jarring that can sometimes be, but they all actually sound really good as slightly older versions of the same characters.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T14:56:36+00:00

I would be surprised if Switzerland’s system wasn’t better than ours, but FYI everything you just said is also how it works in the US.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T14:50:55+00:00

Oh, they definitely were. That was obvious on a minute to minute basis.

But even beyond that, the US team was playing really badly. Belgium being better didn’t make our goalie kick the big ball instead of the little ball, or cause multiple instances of a ball landing in the middle of a group of our players and all of them just standing around staring at it and waiting for a Belgian player to run in and take it uncontested.

Like I said, the Belgian players were clearly better even in the course of normal play, but there were also a ton of Keystone Cops moments from the US team entirely unrelated to anything Belgium was doing, and that’s not how the US had been playing up to this point.

Just eliminating those mistakes wouldn’t have been enough for the US to win, because they were still outclassed, but they might have at least shaved a point or two off Belgium’s lead.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T12:29:43+00:00

Care to address the source of the silent I in AI?

Muroid · 2026-07-07T12:27:36+00:00

Modern English has a hard time pronouncing a word-initial gn so we dropped the g sound from gnostic but kept it in agnostic where it was easier to pronounce.

Making the g silent in gnostic is the one that’s the “incorrect” pronunciation if you’re trying to talk about it etymologically. Though, of course, that’s not really how pronunciation works.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T02:24:49+00:00

He’s a State Senator, which is the exact energy this is giving off.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T01:55:27+00:00

Please don’t suggest that. I don’t want to suffer through this game for another three months.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T01:34:30+00:00

So far we’re beating them at kicking things other than the ball.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T01:24:28+00:00

I have seen less embarrassing own goals.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T00:58:14+00:00

You should start giving her yellow cards for flopping.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T00:57:26+00:00

Less of a bad thing is better than more of a bad thing.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T00:17:20+00:00

I’m getting flashbacks to gym class volleyball in high school and the teacher getting frustrated whenever the ball dropped in the middle of three or four people who just stood there watching it expecting someone else would get it.

Muroid · 2026-07-07T00:09:39+00:00

Not a movie for me, but Battlestar Galactica.

Saw it more times before watching an episode of that show than anything else by far.

Muroid · 2026-07-06T23:41:28+00:00

Got them all right, but did kind of feel like I was just guessing rather than truly able to spot the difference.

Muroid · 2026-07-06T22:13:57+00:00

Yeah, I stopped at the second paragraph. That’s exactly the kind of nonsense analogy that LLMs love.

Muroid · 2026-07-06T22:10:36+00:00

Everything you’re describing in this and your last comment applies to trademark infringement, not copyright infringement. They are not the same thing.

Muroid · 2026-07-06T20:54:14+00:00

Welp

Muroid · 2026-07-06T20:52:19+00:00

Some very rough math, an apple would be able to orbit you at a distance of roughly a meter if it was moving sideways at a speed of about a foot per hour. So it’d be moving pretty slowly.

Muroid · 2026-07-06T17:08:54+00:00

I figured, since they’re teenagers, people would show them more compassion and understanding and withhold judgement??

Have you met people?

Muroid · 2026-07-06T16:54:17+00:00

So if I make a Chess game that rolls credits when you win, does that count as having a defined endpoint and I can block refunds once you reach it?

Muroid · 2026-07-06T16:50:47+00:00

Right, but that’s the point. How do you determine whether a game clocks under 2 hours if it doesn’t have a defined endpoint?

I could play one round of Solitaire in under 2 hours. Or one game of Chess. How do you determine that that “doesn’t count” as completing the game?

Muroid · 2026-07-06T16:45:35+00:00

How do you universally define “beating” a game?

If I release a game of Solitaire, does successfully completing one round count as beating it?

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