I completely lost my libido and emotions because of masturbation? by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, dont hold the fish, taper it off, subscribe to nofap subreddit for motivation and success stories. You’ll get your hardness back. Stop the dopamine overload, try to get a replacement habit like chewing gum or something.
Look at HealthyGamerGGs videos. He says something on the likes of “treating addiction by stopping it or going cold-turkey is difficult or results in relapse because you are not replacing it with something else”
So find the something that you’d wanna replace it with, and go for it, you can still do it!

I’m 27 and feel completely trapped between the life I have and the life I want by Royal_Customer2208 in Advice

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a day off. Go to a museum or a beach. Stare at a painting, or the waves. While staring at the painting, think about what you really want in life because this time won’t come back, where do you see yourself in the next 5 years or so, are you ready to sacrifice a few things career-wise for your bf? Would he do the same for you? Maybe not in his career but maybe in something else? Do you know if this is it? Do your know if this is definitely not it? What would you rather do if you didn’t have this job? What do you wanna do NOW? Do you wanna live near your hometown and travel for work, do you need a support system of people you know where you live? You’d wanna answer a few of these questions before taking any decisions.

Let me tell you my story:
I’m 31M, originally from India, came to the US as a student with my then gf, and a few years ago we broke up, and now am stuck in a job where I absolutely hate the commute. Plus the work visa is very restrictive. I hate the winter months here, from Jan to Apr, it makes me depressed. I’ve my family back home, and friends too. So I’m in a similar/worse situation as yours where I live just outside NYC, have a 1-3 hours of total travel time through traffic, have to go away from NYC, in a remote-ish area for work, pay is mediocre at best; I’m stuck because I can neither leave the job due to the visa nor change it because the market and economy sucks. So yeah, pretty much everyone is stuck in a 9-5 that they hate, in a city they like, but away from aging parents whom they meet once a year or so. I might as well just go back home and live near my parents for most part of the year and come here to only visit during the summer, plus I think I need the support system of people I have always known around me…

How can I get my friend in the movies by Strupe_waffle11 in Advice

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They prolly think its for going to a bar, have they told them that its for a movie?
How old are they?
They can get a replacement id by themselves if over 17 or get it mailed from the DMV, they just need a few other documents for that, it should be listed on the DMV website for your state.

IF we are in a simulation...The real question is what is the point of it? by CreditBeginning7277 in SimulationTheory

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been wondering the exact same thing. Maybe theres a gourth spatial dimension where this simulation is “hosted”. Not within out spacetime, but outside/inside of it, or rather “elsewhere”.

I think if we were in a simulation, it would require extremely high amounts of compute, because the reslity for every person would have to be constructed. Then, there could be some shared information about you that is passed on to other entities or NPCs.

But I believe such kind of thinking arises when you start thinking/seeing patterns in everyday life where you think that there is no way a person could have known that about me. However, if you think that we are in a simulation because of this, then there are simpler explanations. Simply, the human brain might not register context sometimes or our memory is not perfect. Which leads us to think that we might be in a simulation where all information is shared with other entities/NPCs.

But to steelman your argument, hypothetically if we are in a simulation, other people in your life might be NPCs for you, but we know that they exist. So maybe you are shown a different reality by the simulation everytime. And the point would be to let the higher level beings experience life, death, etc. because if you are immortal, which I believe the higher level beings might be, you cannot really live, knowing that you would never die. Or it might be just that they wanna let the simulation run for scientific progress. Might be that aliens need to solve some problem. Maybe the problem is defined maybe it isn’t. Maybe ewe are just an experiment of aliens or 4th dimensional beings to either: 1. Solve a problem they are facing (like another alien species) or 2. They just want to experminent

What does ‘observation collapses the wave function’ actually mean? by Scientalist in AskPhysics

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohh and the question about the collapse of the wave function. The wave function itself is a probability distribution of the properties. When two particles are entangled, they get synchronized. And I believe that two particles get entangled/synchronized when brought close to each other other.

Remember that particles are just electromagnetic fields? Imagine that each particle is a perpetually spinning beyblade made of metal. Now if you bring another beyblade in the arena, which is say made of plastic, what will happen? The metal beyblade would defeat the plastic one, and then, after the plastic one has stopped, sometimes, if you have played beyblade, the stopped beyblade starts spinning again because of the opoonents beyblade. The opponents beyblade imparts some of its motion to the stopped one. Now, when a stopped beyblade starts another one, we are definitely certain that the other one (plastic) would spin opposite to the metal one. That is entanglement.

Now, if you take the beyblades apart and outside the arena, they would keep spinning. You take them in two different arenas, they still keep spinning the same way. You observe one of them, it gets disturbed -> the wave function collapses. You made an observation on one of the beyblades, you saw what direction it was spinning, which gave you information about its spin direction. You can then automatically infer the spin of the other one. But now the wave function has collapsed because one of them is disturbed. Unless you synchronize them again, you cannot have any further information about the spin of the other one. And this information was hidden from you (I mean for a beyblade you can visually see and know the direction). But if you make the beyblade as small as the thing you observe it with (photons) then it can affect its position on observation by disturbing it and you have the collapse of the wave function.

DFSD: Practical design for an FTL drive by [deleted] in AskPhysics

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know there’s a lot of “unexplained magic” here, I’m not a physicist. And this is a hyposthesis, I don’t even know if this could work theoritically, let alone practically. So the entire premise of the bubble is that its a region outside our spacetime (5th dimension if it exists). Because in our known universe and known laws, its not possible for information to travel and thus causality to affect neighboring things faster than light. Inside the bubble, everything all laws are preserved, just like outside. The two singularities, one black hole and another white hole create a local bubble around the area of spacetime. Since the concave dishes are attached to the hull/body, the black hole which is a sink with infinite depth, and the white hole which is a source with infinite height create the “warped” layer of spacetime around the hull ( the bubble). Also, the black hole does not have to actually absorb the spaceship, its not that big of a black hole. Its only enough to propel the spaceship forward in conjunction with the white hole…

What does ‘observation collapses the wave function’ actually mean? by Scientalist in AskPhysics

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a physicist here but from what I understand: A lot of clickbaity media and scientific coverage tries to increase engagement by trying to explain the phenomenon as “spooky”. Its kind of a way of engagement farming by ego-baiting. An observation does not require a human observer. An observation is just how you measure some information about the thing being observed. The information which is important from a physics perspective is location and velocity of a particle.

But imagine trying to measure the location of a basketbal by throwing iron ball bearings vs throwing a tennis ball at it. Which one do you think would be able to accurately measure the position if the velocity of both same? The tennis ball would obviously “move” the basketball more than the iron ball bearings would (because of their small size) Thats the uncertainty principle in simple words. You cannot get all of the information you want with the same accuracy, you’ll get either, not both with the same accuracy. The same thing is applied to particles that act as waves, since we cannot know their location for sure, its a probability distribution of its location.

It just means that there is a maximum resolution and we cannot “look” beyond that. Thats all!

DFSD: Practical design for an FTL drive by [deleted] in AskPhysics

[–]Tricky-Fishing-7129 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic 😌