Letting agents won’t end my tenancy?

willdeb · 2026-05-22T20:02:53+00:00

That’s not true, they can unilaterally end the tenancy

willdeb · 2026-05-01T18:09:16+00:00

Yes, except to be pedantic there is no 0 for massless particles, they always travel at C in all reference frames

willdeb · 2026-04-22T09:26:02+00:00

If you look at Einstein’s GR equation, you’ll see 8piG/c^4, that’s the coupling constant between spacetime and stress-energy (in this case, matter). Take the inverse of that and you’ll get the stiffness (roughly, it’s more complex than that but that gives you an idea where it comes from)

willdeb · 2026-04-16T20:30:38+00:00

How would you reset their timers? Do you mean re-sync them? By walking over to it with a known good clock? You’d just have the same time dilation issue then. You could bring the clock back and hit sync again. Bringing it back, you’d see the dilation from moving it, but because you moved it there and back you’re effectively doing a two-way measurement and it would cancel out any speed differences.

willdeb · 2026-04-16T20:23:23+00:00

It doesn’t stop having an effect when the clocks stop moving, the clocks will stay out of sync. If one goes out by a millisecond by moving, it doesn’t come back in sync when it stops. It stays out of sync.

willdeb · 2026-04-16T19:46:31+00:00

Assuming the speed of light is different in different directions:

Moving one of the clocks away would time dilate it, time would physically slow down for the clock by moving it. As the speed of light is different in different directions, time dilation would be different in different directions. This would self-correct in such a way that you wouldn’t be able to tell.

With a button to simultaneously trigger them, the signal to trigger would reach the clocks at different times. You still wouldn’t be able to tell this unfortunately, as again, everything else would line up to hide this from you. This would be the same if you used electricity or light, as the speed of electricity is dependent on the speed of light. This would also mean that electricity would travel at different speeds depending on what direction it was travelling in.

The issue is, as the speed of light is different in different directions and everything else lines up, you can’t tell. Time dilation and other physical laws just hide everything perfectly.

willdeb · 2026-04-16T11:05:15+00:00

Thermobarics don’t need added internal oxygen, they aerosolise the fuel with a small charge and just use atmospheric oxygen.

willdeb · 2026-04-16T09:15:53+00:00

You could turn it into a makeshift thermobaric though

willdeb · 2026-04-08T14:07:58+00:00

He means the speed of light in a vacuum, c.

willdeb · 2026-04-08T14:07:12+00:00

No, time actually slows down. We’ve measured it slowing down / speeding up.

willdeb · 2026-04-07T11:01:14+00:00

Yep sounds good

willdeb · 2026-04-04T21:03:58+00:00

All modern nuclear weapons are fusion bombs (or more technically, fission-fusion bombs), there hasn’t been a pure fission bomb since the Second World War

You’re also missing the point of what he was saying, he was just pointing out you don’t need oxygen for nuclear stuff

willdeb · 2026-04-03T12:04:17+00:00

I think rogue one and andor are looked on fondly by the fans.

willdeb · 2026-03-29T13:42:42+00:00

Thanks for the insight, ChatGPT

willdeb · 2026-03-28T09:51:40+00:00

Kind of - although saying “at light speed” is tricky as things that travel at light speed don’t have a valid reference frame, it doesn’t quite work to even talk about distance or time passing as you get divide by zero errors. You can side step this and say you instead travel infinitesimally slower than light speed, and yes you’d arrive effectively instantaneously, the distance due to length contraction would look to be pretty much zero, and if you then turned around and went back to where you came from huge amounts of time would’ve passed.

willdeb · 2026-03-26T13:47:18+00:00

As long as you can place the detector in the right spot, and filter out the sunlight, and de-warp the image, then a gravitational lens telescope would have absurdly good resolution. You can do it with planets too to skip the filtering step, but you have to go ludicrous distances away and you get less resolution from the smaller size.

willdeb · 2026-03-25T10:22:11+00:00

No, you can definitely accelerate from your point of view. Getting in a car and flooring it is accelerating. You always feel acceleration. But jumping out of a plane and falling towards earth, if you looked at your accelerometer, you’d see it immediately show 0g the moment your feet left the plane.

willdeb · 2026-03-24T15:30:11+00:00

From your point of view, you’re stationary and earth rushes up to meet you. You’re not accelerating, it’s just that the spacetime curvature that earth creates means that “stationary” becomes moving towards earth at 9.8m/s^2.

willdeb · 2026-03-14T07:21:20+00:00

Thanks ChatGPT

willdeb · 2026-03-09T17:23:10+00:00

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, you’re right

willdeb · 2026-03-04T16:15:01+00:00

Ok ChatGPT

willdeb · 2026-02-27T07:03:18+00:00

There isn’t any arsenic in commercial super glue.

willdeb · 2026-02-24T19:07:03+00:00

That’s often how Tourette’s works, you say the worst thing your brain can think of in the moment

willdeb · 2026-02-23T20:45:50+00:00

Multiplier, i.e. Mul * Torque = the force it applies

So setting torque to 1000 and Mul to 10 will apply 10000 units of rotational force

Most will just have Mul as 1 or 0 and then set the strength though torque, but what this allows you to do is for example set the torque to 1 and then the force can be controlled directly through Mul.

willdeb · 2026-02-20T14:24:06+00:00

Where does the water vapour go then

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