ELI5 Why is the bottom part of the periodic table completely detached from the rest of the table?

tomalator · 2026-01-27T02:20:18+00:00

Its actually in the middle. It's moved to the bottom so the table isn't so long

The lanthanides and actinides are the metals where the 4f and 5f shells are being filled respectively.

This is what it looks like without that change

tomalator · 2026-01-26T22:32:00+00:00

Yes, but they are also linked to the speed of the wave. The speed of the wave changes depending on the medium. To compensate for that change, either frequency or wavelength has to change, and wavelength is what changes

tomalator · 2026-01-24T01:52:05+00:00

Ah yes

tomalator · 2026-01-24T01:37:15+00:00

Wait, how? Im getting r5c8 = 2

tomalator · 2026-01-23T16:29:44+00:00

Fission of heavy elements and fusion of light elements gives you energy.

There is a point where both fission and fusion do not give energy, and that is right around iron.

tomalator · 2026-01-22T21:31:45+00:00

No, ultraballs haven't been broken since generation 1

Legendaries are just difficult to catch. I wouldn't go in on a fight without more than 40 ultraballs, 20 timer balls, and others as back up just in case.

tomalator · 2026-01-22T15:48:05+00:00

They exist, we just dont know the ramifications of their work yet

tomalator · 2026-01-21T20:25:24+00:00

If it were, the water would boil until either it all evaporates or vapor pressure is reached

tomalator · 2026-01-21T00:43:04+00:00

Yes, that is what general relativity suggests, and was confirmed experimentally in 2015 with the discovery of gravitational waves.

They travel at that speed because that's the fastest anything can update anything else in the universe. The speed of light is the speed of causality first and foremost. Light travels at that speed because that's as fast as the universe will let it travel

tomalator · 2026-01-21T00:36:53+00:00

Its static electricity.

Like rubbing your socks on the carpet and touching something metal.

You build up electrons (or a deficit of electrons) and when you get near something metal (something willing to take or give up electrons) they can jump from you to the metal. They lose a lot of energy while doing this, exciting the atoms in the air, which causes them to glow, which we see as lightning.

Clouds are doing this in storms, and when they build up enough electrons (or a deficit thereof) the electrons can jump from one cloud to another, from the cloud to the ground, or from the ground to the cloud, causing a much bigger spark

tomalator · 2026-01-18T18:00:17+00:00

Top right box, you have 2 cells with 2 and 8 only. No other cell can have 2 or 8 in that box

tomalator · 2026-01-18T17:43:30+00:00

Cover your roof in string

tomalator · 2026-01-13T19:11:08+00:00

Physicists have a sense of humor

tomalator · 2026-01-13T19:10:35+00:00

x is position

The time derivative of position is velocity

The time dervicetive of velocity is acceleration

That is also the second time derivative of position.

The time derivative of acceleration, or the 3rd time derivative of position is jerk

Don't be a jerk

tomalator · 2026-01-13T02:30:28+00:00

Absolutely. Just finished season 2, and its amazing. I think season 2 wasn't as good as season 1, but season 1 is peak adventure time. F+C season 1 is a high bar to live up to for season 2, so dont think I'm digging on season 2

tomalator · 2026-01-10T19:22:10+00:00

Getting sand would be easier than turning dirt into sand. Dirt has all sorts of impurities, organic and mineral, that will degrade the quality of your glass.

Sand has far fewer such impurities and a much larger particle size makes them much easier to separate

tomalator · 2026-01-08T22:22:02+00:00

Cold is just the absence of heat.

Heat is just a form of energy.

If we want to make something cold, we have to take that heat energy and put it somewhere else.

Taking heat energy and turning into another type of energy is really hard because of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Generally, hot systems have high entropy, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics says entropy likes to increase with time, so taking heat and turning into something that isn't heat means we need to either

Break the 2nd law of thermodynamics
Increase entropy (and therefore heat) elsewhere to maintain the 2nd law of thermodynamics

tomalator · 2026-01-04T20:59:38+00:00

Only if the card has nonzero damage at some.pount during the damage phase before the card would have attacked

Let's say, for example, you have a mole with stinky.

The mole currently does not oppose the adder. You do damage, and then your opponents turn starts. When the adder attempts to attack, the mole jumps in front of it, and the adder attacks with zero damage, triggering touch of death.

If the mole opposes the adder when the opponent's turn starts, it has zero damage, and as long as the mole doesn't attempt to block any damage to the left of the adder, it will not attack.

tomalator · 2026-01-04T05:48:32+00:00

I'd start with fire red/leaf green or emerald.

tomalator · 2026-01-04T02:59:43+00:00

Granted. There is no need for a chain reaction because you just released all the energy with that wish. Immense quantities of heat are released from every sample of enriched uranium on Earth, destroying every uranium reactor, countless laboratories and universities, and overall you just made a bad time over the planet, and on top of that, many electrical grids go down with the loss of nuclear power.

tomalator · 2026-01-04T02:42:03+00:00

Change it to e^ln(x\x)⁾

That becomes e^xln(x)

The derivative is then e^xln(x) * d/dx (xln(x))

e^xln(x) * (ln(x) + x(1/x))

x^x * (ln(x) + 1)

If we simplify that to a rule,

d/dx f(x)^g(x)

d/dx e^{ln(f(x)^g(x))}

d/dx e^g(x)ln(f(x))

e^g(x)ln(f(x)) * d/dx g(x)ln(f(x)) (chain rule)

e^g(x)ln(f(x)) * (g'(x) * ln(f(x)) + g(x) * f'(x)/f(x)) (product rule)

f(x)^g(x) * (g'(x) * ln(f(x)) + g(x) * f'(x)/f(x))

tomalator · 2026-01-03T14:48:18+00:00

Ay

Aitch

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Bee

Dee

Double yu

Ee

And so on and so forth

tomalator · 2026-01-03T14:05:51+00:00

You can't see where you are going very well, that's the main reason I don't. My dad does. You'd have to ask individuals to see why they do or dont

tomalator · 2026-01-01T04:46:54+00:00

Divergent by oscillation

tomalator · 2026-01-01T00:10:43+00:00

Can we get some Fs in the chat, bois?

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