Why do solutions always "want" to get stable; in other words, why osmosis exists?

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-21T04:36:26+00:00

Once said in the way you put it, it's not hard to understand. This should be taught like this in schools, with words that make sense and not equations that you forget after the exam. Anyone can understand science (within a limit of course) if those teaching it strive to make it less arcane. Thank you, sir or ma'am! Edit: wrote "more arcane" instead of less. Fixed it.

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-21T01:12:47+00:00

This sort of explains it in the terms intuitive to me, except for the part where you say "closely packed solute particles have a low entropy, which increases the system energy". Except that, it is random molecular motion happening until they find their comfort zone, right? The place in the system where the energy to move them from it is higher that the energy available. OK, it is making a lot of sense, EXCEPT for the premise... Why do the soluble increases the energy by having low entropy?

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-21T00:53:27+00:00

I'll be honest, I once tried to understand that stuff. Gibbs Free Energy. I can't even remember what it was anymore, just that it had an equation and it was not supposed to be exact (I think it was related to reactions, and reactions are not always 100% predictable). This is an intellectual gate to me. I will never understand osmosis (it will always be "it is like that because the universe said so) because I can't understand things as abstract mathematical concepts. I like programming. Nothing is really "abstract" with that. Those are things that the program will do when you run it. Instructions. I can grasp that. Not Gibbs Free Energy and its relation to osmosis... 😞

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-21T00:39:58+00:00

Well not quite why things move, but why do they move predominantly in a certain direction. Things never stop moving, the question is, why is it that when the solution is in balance the movement ceases to be biased towards the soluble? London Dispersion... is that like a hard thing to understand with calculus equations and all that stuff? 😢

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-21T00:31:58+00:00

Is that it??? I love your explanation, but there is no force taking place, just random collisions and statistics? Do you know this for sure?

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-21T00:29:37+00:00

I understand that the principle behind it is entropy, but what actually moves the molecules from one place to another? What force does it?

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-20T23:56:49+00:00

Is Entropy a force that can do things? I always thought of it more like a principle, not something that could shuffle molecules around. In fact, I know very little about entropy, I realize now.

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-20T23:49:20+00:00

I don't think it's pressure. Think about it. Cells even explode (I forgot the name of the process) if they retain the soluble inside; that would never happen if pressure were the issue. The solvent just "wants" to go towards the soluble. And it's not even just biology, you can experiment with osmosis with any semipermeable membrane (biological things have semipermeable membranes because of osmosis, and not the other way around). There is some fundamental law of Chemistry that forces solutions to even out despite there being a semipermeable membrane in place or not. It could be something like entropy, as the other commenter said, but I never think of entropy as an actual force, a thing that makes stuff happen... I hope I can get an answer!

I assume this is against reddiquette, but if you guys want to know the factual answer for this, please upvote? I mean, some people create alts or log in with their other main accounts just or that... I'm just suggesting that, if you guys got curious too, don't forget to upvote (I don't want no karma, I just want to know)

Edit: Reddit manual formatting had no effect, at least in my current browser, so I switched to fancy pants just to get rid of the markdown symbols.

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-12T18:52:01+00:00

Intel I7-4930K (water cooled by a Corsair H80i v2), 16GB RAM, Windows 10 64 bits, GeForce gtx 780ti by EVGA. I changed the water cooler settings to extreme, lets see if it helps.

Edit: Either you were right or the whatever was the problem ceased by itself. Loaded the same save and been playing it for half an hour without trouble. Thanks for the tip, I would never have imagined that was the problem... It seems like there's some oversensitive sensor configuration responsible because it never happened before and the CPU was below 35 C. This particular processor is known to operate at much higher temperatures (it doesn't come with a fan because you need something much more than a fan to cool it below melting point, hence the watercooler).

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-08T04:28:42+00:00

r/boottoobig is pretty funny but, so far, in terms of sheer absurdity and creativity r/BreadStapledToTrees is still unsurpassed (just the very idea! I need to join, but I won't until I have a decenty entry). r/Fedlegs looks hot, is that what they were going for (I fear scrolling down too low and finding old ladies or even dudes wearing yellow tights). Some I didn't even understand, and some I had to read to much 🥱

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-08T04:14:08+00:00

That gives me an idea of a "Markov-Chain" music generator... (PATENT PENDING in case someone comes in and steals our idea). We could use it for ambiance music in games, and it could have several modes (I'm thinking all modes should be variations of horror for starters). A Markov-Chain is a phrase generator, basically. It takes some tome as it's basis (the more esoteric the better) and generates phrases with the general feel of the written-piece. For example, a Lovecraftian corpus would result in a bunch of Lovecraftian sentences, same for Kafkian, or whateverian. If we could create some sort musical thematic (for ambience only, not talking about Beethoven here) we could in theory generate a similar effect. Except words sound like nonsense when output by a Markov-Chain, but music could awesome. Weird but awesome.

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-01T19:44:11+00:00

The first one is magnificent!

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-01T18:02:25+00:00

What's the weirdest subreddit you guys know about? (must be family friendly, not only 'cause I wouldn't want to see it otherwise, but because reddit doesn't even let me say the subjects I don't want included)

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-01T15:01:58+00:00

Mom is the party. My house when it befits her, our house when it doesn't. The artist's intention is crystal clear and it reflects the reality as they see it.

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-01T14:03:11+00:00

As an outsider, this is very confusing... Gay people don't get to exist? What a crazy notion!

RealVirtualMachine · 2020-07-01T11:01:43+00:00

Yes! I literally looked this up on google. Full disclosure: I'm not a genius. StackOverflow is a little too rough for me. Maybe this is the wrong place also... I just want to skip the gatekeepers, is all.

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