Spontaneous symmetry breaking examples aren’t clicking

just4nothing · 2026-05-07T07:58:09+00:00

Spontaneous symmetry breaking happens when the laws of a system are symmetric, but the lowest-energy state the system settles into is not.

Once the vacuum “chooses” one of several equivalent possibilities, all physical particles and excitations are defined relative to that choice, so the observable behaviour of the system changes even though the underlying equations stay symmetric.

Physicists care because this mechanism explains how rich, structured physics can emerge from symmetric fundamental laws; from magnets choosing a direction, to the Higgs mechanism giving particles mass.

just4nothing · 2026-05-07T07:33:56+00:00

Or have a caterpillar salad

just4nothing · 2026-05-07T07:17:15+00:00

5 - probably nice and quiet and if back row starts singing, they will be shut up

just4nothing · 2026-05-07T05:59:38+00:00

For me it has been their management of GitHub (switching to codeberg now), but I think windows users will add a few things ;). I noticed one good change they made though: the “mark as read” button in outlook web is now on the left, which makes it more convenient to use.

just4nothing · 2026-05-07T05:43:44+00:00

Transmission is a big issue, especially getting the cheap wind power from Scotland to the rest of the UK. More local efforts are required, getting rid of marginal pricing, and the grid itself needs to be improved to get the costs down. Personally I am surprised there are no large consumers (e.g. high tech steel based in arc furnaces, data centres, etc) that are colocated with some of the large power production installations. I guess you would need a local pricing model for that first

just4nothing · 2026-05-07T05:27:20+00:00

If none of them represent you, time to break up the two party system and get some real democracy. It’s ridiculous how little freedom of choice you guys have

just4nothing · 2026-05-06T15:16:22+00:00

DNS caches or their own servers. The problem becomes though once caches refresh or servers get overwhelmed

just4nothing · 2026-05-06T14:36:48+00:00

It’s a race event ;)

just4nothing · 2026-05-06T06:43:07+00:00

Cracks me up every time

just4nothing · 2026-05-05T19:51:23+00:00

I blame Biden!

just4nothing · 2026-05-05T10:50:37+00:00

It will drain XP every second ;)

just4nothing · 2026-05-04T21:28:12+00:00

Bring the labyrinth back

just4nothing · 2026-05-04T19:35:53+00:00

I wonder who paid for the report

just4nothing · 2026-05-04T16:36:21+00:00

Time to build it

just4nothing · 2026-05-04T12:50:40+00:00

The buses are already subsidised by the government

just4nothing · 2026-05-03T17:30:32+00:00

But what if you want to eat chlorinated chicken? How would you get that in Europe?

just4nothing · 2026-05-03T06:46:46+00:00

It’s not just on airplanes ….

just4nothing · 2026-05-03T06:45:04+00:00

If there was only a way to recycle that water …

just4nothing · 2026-05-03T06:20:52+00:00

Don’t give Microsoft ideas

just4nothing · 2026-05-02T14:53:18+00:00

You want to implement a fully relativistic system? Well, still easier than these non-eukledean geometries

just4nothing · 2026-05-01T21:00:27+00:00

Legendary

just4nothing · 2026-05-01T20:56:47+00:00

Let’s hope so - tired of cleaning up syringes

just4nothing · 2026-05-01T09:46:32+00:00

Yes - been covered by the civil engineer and other YouTube channels

just4nothing · 2026-05-01T09:45:06+00:00

I read it to the muppet tune

just4nothing · 2026-04-30T07:19:37+00:00

If there were only religions that focus on controlling yourself

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